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Thus, the T1DM-Aware individuals may have heightened awareness to hypoglycemia sensory inputs compared with HC subjects, which would be consistent with their higher reported ratings of hypoglycemia symptoms both at euglycemia and at hypoglycemia. Most strikingly, compared with T1DM-Aware and HC subjects, the T1DM-Unaware participants showed virtually no changes in brain activity in response to mild hypoglycemia.
Very little is known about the impact of hypoglycemia unawareness on regional brain responses; however, these findings would be consistent with the blunted symptom scores as well as the blunted counterregulatory hormone responses to hypoglycemia observed in the T1DM-Unaware group.
The underlying mechanism mediating the lack of change among the T1DM-Unaware individuals remains uncertain; however, it is likely due to brain adaptations to frequent episodes of severe hypoglycemia in the preceding year of the study.
Recurrent hypoglycemia alters brain glucose transport kinetics as well as promotes increased utilization of alternate fuels such as monocarboxylic acids lactate, ketones, and acetate in humans when the availability of glucose diminishes 36 , Furthermore, T1DM individuals with hypoglycemia unawareness may have alterations in cerebral blood flow during hypoglycemia 38 , 39 , which may also affect BOLD signal.
Interestingly, a recent study has reported that individuals with T1DM and hypoglycemia unawareness have increased cerebral blood flow during acute hypoglycemia compared with T1DM-Aware and HC subjects The current findings would be consistent with these observations that the brain adapts to ensure sufficient substrate glucose delivery to the brain.
In keeping with these human studies, data in rodents have also demonstrated that prior exposure to hypoglycemia induces upregulation of blood-brain-barrier glucose transport, leading to more efficient glucose utilization during hypoglycemia 40 , Thus, the lack of change in brain activity among T1DM-Unaware individuals in response to mild hypoglycemia may be the culmination of a variety of adaptive changes in cerebral blood flow, glucose transport, cerebral glucose metabolism, or some combination of each of these factors.
It is important to note that induction of hypoglycemia results in a series of dynamic changes in brain activation and deactivation, and thus time intervals when the scans are acquired over the course of hypoglycemia may directly impact the directionality and regional changes observed This, as well as other factors such as hypoglycemia target, timing of image acquisition, and imaging modality, may all contribute to the heterogeneity of brain responses to hypoglycemia previously reported in the literature.
For example, we did not observe hypoglycemia-induced changes in the hypothalamus, which has been reported by some groups 25 , but not others 42 to be altered during hypoglycemia in T1DM individuals. Thus, our findings must be interpreted cautiously given that we are only observing a snapshot of the dynamic brain changes produced over the course of falling blood glucose levels, a critical time for prevention of hypoglycemia-induced brain injury.
Importantly, it remains uncertain whether lower glycemic thresholds will be able to elicit changes in brain activation responses among T1DM-Unaware individuals and whether the brain responses will be in a similar pattern to that observed among T1DM-Aware individuals.
However, it remains uncertain whether lower glucose thresholds are the only difference between T1DM-Aware and -Unaware individuals. Furthermore, whether these changes are reversible and whether strict avoidance of hypoglycemia can restore brain responses remains to be assessed.
Of note, prior studies using strict avoidance of hypoglycemia have also resulted in worsening of glycemic control 44 — 46 , which could also have an impact on glucose transport capacity into the brain. Among nondiabetic individuals, high-calorie food cues have been shown to elicit robust changes in brain activity in reward, motivation, and executive control regions during both euglycemia 47 and mild hypoglycemia 5.
Consistent with these findings reported in nondiabetic individuals, the current data demonstrate that T1DM-Aware individuals also had a pronounced change in the medial OFC when viewing high-calorie food cues that was not present when looking at pictures of non-food objects.
Notably, the medial OFC plays an important role in reward-guided decision making 48 , Furthermore, because it has dense direct connections with the hypothalamus 50 , 51 , it has been shown to play a particularly important role in regulating feeding behavior 52 — Thus, it is particularly noteworthy that in contrast to T1DM-Aware individuals, high-calorie food cues had no effect on medial OFC brain activity during mild hypoglycemia in T1DM-Unaware individuals, suggesting a diminished drive to eat, which may be a critical early defect in the defense against hypoglycemia.
Interestingly, we found no relationship between changes in brain activity to high-calorie foods and the counterregulatory hormone response.
Whether the lack of brain response is due to intrinsic CNS differences or secondary to the blunted rise in circulating counterregulatory hormone levels remains unclear and further studies will be needed to address this question and prove causality.
However, given that in nondiabetic subjects changes in brain activity induce and occur prior to changes in counterregulatory hormones 4 , it is likely that changes in brain activity are not primarily driven by the counterregulatory response, but rather play the key role in protecting the brain by initiating appropriate defenses against falling glucose levels.
Prior studies have also noted a dissociation between counterregulatory hormone responses and awareness of hypoglycemia It is noteworthy that there are some considerations and limitations to the current study. While we defined our groups using widely accepted and validated questionnaires for hypoglycemia unawareness, the Clarke and Gold scores, these are subjective reports and we did not collect data on glycemic variability and objective rates of hypoglycemia in the months preceding our studies.
In addition, our T1DM-Unaware participants were approximately 10 years older and had diabetes for a longer duration than the T1DM-Aware group. Although we covaried for age, BMI, and duration of diabetes, our findings among the T1DM-Unaware individuals should still be interpreted cautiously with recognition that it may be very difficult experimentally to separate the effects of age and longer duration of T1DM from the effects of hypoglycemia unawareness itself.
Of note in this regard, increasing age has been associated with increases in baseline epinephrine levels 55 and our T1DM-Unaware cohort was slightly older and had higher baseline epinephrine levels; however, we did not observe any relationships between epinephrine levels at euglycemia or hypoglycemia and brain responses.
Furthermore, prior studies have examined the effects of age on counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia among nondiabetic individuals.
In these studies, where the mean age of the older groups was markedly older than our cohort age 60—70s , they found modest 55 or no 56 differences in counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia. It is also noteworthy that increased age and duration of diabetes may be associated with cerebrovascular dysfunction.
Increased presence of cerebral small vessel disease such as white matter hyperintensities and lacunes have been reported among individuals with T1DM mean age 50 years 57 , 58 ; however, other studies among older T1DM patients mean age ~60 years and with known microvascular complications 59 have reported no significant differences in white matter lesions or microinfarcts compared with control subjects.
While we cannot exclude the possibility that occult cerebrovascular disease may also contribute to the differences observed in the T1DM-Unaware individuals, this appears less likely given our participants had well-controlled diabetes, had no history of cerebrovascular disease or cardiovascular disease, and were significantly younger mean age 30 and 40 years for T1DM-Aware and -Unaware, respectively than the groups reported in the literature.
Finally, even though our study includes larger numbers of T1DM-Aware and T1DM-Unaware participants than prior fMRI-based studies investigating hypoglycemia unawareness, our sample sizes remain a limitation. To minimize the risk of false positives, we used a P -value threshold of less than 0.
Currently, best practice guidelines for conducting fMRI based studies typically recommend at least 20 subjects per group to minimize false positives 60 ; however, these recommendations may not be directly applicable to studies among relatively rare disease groups such as individuals with T1DM and hypoglycemia unawareness or in study designs using highly controlled physiologic manipulations such as in a 2-step euglycemic-hypoglycemic clamp where individuals are compared to themselves at 2 well-defined, but different states.
In conclusion, the current study highlights the differential CNS responses to mild hypoglycemia among individuals with T1DM and preserved or diminished hypoglycemia awareness. Our findings suggest that although T1DM-Aware individuals no longer exhibit hypoglycemia-induced changes in reward and motivation brain regions striatum , they have developed compensatory increases in activity in regions associated with attention i.
However, T1DM patients with hypoglycemia unawareness fail to respond acutely to mild hypoglycemia in cortico-striatal and fronto-parietal brain regions. Taken together with the blunted counterregulatory hormone and subjective hypoglycemia symptom responses seen among these individuals, these CNS changes most likely play an important role in causing the inability of T1DM patients with hypoglycemia unawareness to detect and respond appropriately to falling plasma glucose levels.
These findings underscore the importance of future interventional studies to determine whether reduction of hypoglycemia frequency can restore these changes in regional brain responses. Participants were recruited from the greater New Haven area as well as the Yale Diabetes Center. Exclusion criteria included inability to enter the MRI, smoking, illicit drug or recent steroid use, known psychiatric or neurological disorders, active infection, malignancy, abnormal thyroid function, cerebrovascular disease, cardiovascular disease, hepatobiliary disease, weight change in the last 3 months, and pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Sixty-seven potential subjects were screened at the Yale New Haven Hospital Research Unit HRU from November through July with a screening history, electrocardiogram, physical examination, and laboratory testing at the HRU.
Of the 67 subjects screened, 42 participants completed the study and were included in the final analysis see CONSORT diagram showing the flow of participants in the study, Supplemental Figure 1. The Clarke score 14 was used to differentiate participants with hypoglycemia awareness versus unawareness.
If the Clarke score was not classifiable i. Study protocol. All participants with T1DM were asked to wear a continuous glucose monitor CGM Dexcom G4 1 week prior to their scheduled MRI visit in order to monitor for antecedent hypoglycemia.
On the day of the MRI, participants arrived to the HRU at 9 AM. All participants were instructed to eat breakfast as usual prior to arrival and those with diabetes were further instructed to bolus insulin as usual for breakfast.
At 10 AM, all participants were provided with a standardized snack consisting of 41 grams of carbohydrate turkey sandwich, apple, diet ginger ale in order to neutralize feelings of hunger as previously described 5. Participants with diabetes were instructed to inject a bolus of insulin as per their home insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio.
Intravenous catheters were placed in antecubital veins bilaterally: one for blood sampling and the other for insulin and glucose infusion. Participants were informed that their glucose levels would be reduced below normal using an insulin and glucose infusion, which could lead to symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Participants were blinded to the timing of changes in glucose levels. BOLD images were acquired during euglycemia between 45 and 60 minutes and hypoglycemia between 90 and minutes sessions.
Participants completed a visual food task while BOLD images were collected, as described below. Throughout the MRI scan, blood was sampled for glucose every 5 minutes. Counterregulatory hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, and cortisol were sampled at 0, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, and minutes.
Biochemical analysis. Plasma glucose was measured enzymatically using glucose oxidase YSI. Plasma-free insulin, leptin, ghrelin, and glucagon were measured by double-antibody radioimmunoassay Millipore , as was plasma cortisol MP Biomedicals.
Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography ESA. Visual food cue task. The visual food cue task we used has been previously validated for fMRI 5 , During each euglycemia and hypoglycemia session, we presented a total of 42 images 3 runs of 14 pictures [7 high-calorie food images, 7 non-food images] each.
High-calorie food pictures included items such as hamburgers, pizza, ice cream, and chocolate as previously described 5. Seventy-five percent of the high-calorie foods were also high-carbohydrate foods. Non-food pictures consisted of objects such as buildings, books, and doors.
Using an event-related design, images were shown for 6 seconds. Each picture was displayed only once and the order of pictures was counterbalanced and randomized within condition across participants. At the end of each trial, a fixation cross appeared with a jittered inter-trial interval mean, 6 seconds; range, 3—9 seconds , during which participants relaxed until the onset of the next trial, as previously described 5.
This process was repeated for each of the 3 runs that were presented at both euglycemia and hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia symptom assessments. Analysis of repeatedly measured variables such as plasma glucose was performed using the mixed-effects regression model method, taking into account both between-subject and within-subject correlations of repeated measures using a combination of prespecified compound symmetry covariance matrix and an autoregressive covariance matrix.
Age, gender, and BMI were adjusted as covariates i. Subsequently, pair-wise comparisons at each time point were performed.
To assess changes in counterregulatory hormones, plasma hormone levels at euglycemia 45 and 60 minutes and hormone levels at hypoglycemia 90 and minutes were averaged together and compared using paired t tests. All analyses were performed using SAS, version 9. A 2-tailed P value of less than 0. Unless otherwise stated, data are presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean SEM.
Study approval. The protocol was approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee. All subjects provided informed, written consent before participation.
fMRI analysis. The digital data Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine [DICOM] were converted to NIFTI using dcm2nii 62 and then the first 3 images were discarded from each functional run to enable the signal to achieve steady-state equilibrium between radio-frequency pulsing and relaxation leaving images per slice per run for analysis.
The data were motion corrected using SPM8 www. Images were iteratively smoothed until the smoothness for any image had a full width half maximum of approximately 6 mm For individual subject data analysis, GLM was used to determine the regions with changes in signal in response to the visual task high-calorie food or non-food image in each session.
To consider potential variability in baseline fMRI signal, drift correction was included in the GLM with drift regressors used to remove the mean time course, linear, quadratic, and cubic trends for each run.
These 3 registrations were concatenated and applied as 1 registration to bring the data into a common reference brain space.
The Colin27 Brain in the Montreal Neurological Institute MNI space was used as the reference brain. In this design, task and session were treated as the within-subjects fixed-effect factors and group as the between-subjects factor and subject as the random-effect factor.
To correct for multiple comparisons, we used FWE correction determined by Monte Carlo simulation using the AFNI 3dClustSim version Results are shown at P less than 0.
JJH and R. Sherwin had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
JJH, DS, RTC, R. Sinha, and R. Sherwin conceived and designed the study. JJH, LP, DS, CS, MH, WL, and RBD acquired the data. CL, JJH, FD, WL, and MH performed statistical analyses. All authors analyzed and interpreted the data and contributed to writing the manuscript. This study was supported in part by grants from the NIH R01DK and P30 DK to R.
Sherwin , K23DK to JJH , and K08AA to DS. The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation was supported by an NIH Clinical Translational Science Award UL1 RR Role of funding source: The funding agencies had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Conflict of interest: JJH and R. Sherwin report receipt of research support from Regeneron. RBD reports receipt of research support from Glaxo Smith Kline. Reference information: J Clin Invest. Go to JCI Insight.
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These levels are associated with major consequences, such as losing consciousness. If a person treated with insulin or sulfonylureas has these readings often, the treatment should be reevaluated. Level 3 hypoglycemia is when a person experiences episodes that require assistance from another person for recovery because they are confused or unconscious.
A blood glucose level is not required to define hypoglycemia in this setting, but with consumption of carbohydrates, or glucagon if they are unable to take something by mouth, the person will be lucid again or recover consciousness.
A: Hypoglycemia unawareness is a condition in which people treated with insulin or sulfonylurea have diminished or no ability to perceive the onset of hypoglycemia level 2. However, if someone is exposed to recurrent episodes of hypoglycemia, the glucose level that triggers symptoms of hypoglycemia keeps getting lower and lower.
So, the person may not notice their symptoms until it is too late, and they become unconscious. The frequency is so high, many people on insulin have hypoglycemia several times a week.
Q: What are the risk factors for developing hypoglycemia unawareness? A: A person must be taking a medicine that causes hypoglycemia, such as insulin or sulfonylurea. We also see other risk factors such as having diabetes for 20 or 30 years, trying too hard to reach low glucose levels, or having trouble managing their diabetes.
Q: What are the complications of hypoglycemia unawareness? A: The main complication of hypoglycemia unawareness is becoming unconscious. Unconsciousness may lead to other problems like car accidents or accidents at work, which may result in severe injury for the person and for others.
Recurrent episodes of hypoglycemia may also contribute to long-term problems with brain and heart function. For example, people who have an episode of severe hypoglycemia are at a greater risk of having a heart attack or a stroke in the next year. It is not clear if this is only because of the hypoglycemia, or if these are just very frail people.
Health care professionals should keep this in mind and pay close attention to other risk factors for cardiovascular disease in these patients, such as hypertension and high cholesterol.
Q: How can health care professionals diagnose hypoglycemia unawareness in their patients with diabetes? A: Health care professionals should talk to their patients about hypoglycemia at every visit, and they should ask their patients how low their blood sugar has to go before they have symptoms.
This should prompt the health care professional to think about why the patient is experiencing episodes of hypoglycemia. Is the patient using too much insulin? Is the patient skipping meals? Has the patient changed their physical activity level? This also reminds us that these patients should carry glucagon with them, and someone—a family member, coworker, or teacher—should know how to access and administer it.
Q: How can health care professionals help patients manage hypoglycemia unawareness? A: Continuous glucose monitors are very good tools for patients that are at risk of hypoglycemia unawareness, because the CGM will alert them if their blood glucose level gets too low.
Patients also will know what their blood glucose level is before they drive, and have insights into how food and exercise affect their glycemia. Health care professionals should also make sure that patients understand that they need to be aware of some circumstances that may put them at risk.
The same is true for alcohol—if patients drink alcohol, it increases the risk of hypoglycemia, so they should be reminded to eat food if they are going to drink. Some studies have shown that if patients avoid hypoglycemia for some time, they can begin to feel the symptoms of hypoglycemia again.
I have seen this in people with diabetes that participate in my research studies. By preventing hypoglycemia, you can reset the body to respond differently to symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Some health care professionals may prefer to use newer basal insulins in patients at risk of hypoglycemia because these insulins seem to have less risk of hypoglycemia than the older ones, but they can still cause hypoglycemia, and we need to be aware of that.
I think that for many people, it is easier to administer mealtime insulin when they have an insulin pump. It is also important to remember that some patients may be afraid to report episodes of hypoglycemia to their doctors because of legal implications.
For example, some states may require people with diabetes to not have a hypoglycemia episode for 6 to 12 months before they can drive a vehicle.
Health care professionals should emphasize to patients that they should know what their blood glucose level is before they drive a car, and that they should have food on hand, so if their glucose level drops, they can manage it.
Q: What research is being conducted on hypoglycemia unawareness? A: Researchers are interested in different aspects of hypoglycemia unawareness such as the cause, complications, and treatments.
Some groups are studying why recurrent hypoglycemia leads to impaired awareness. Is it a problem with brain adaptation to hypoglycemia, or is it only a problem with people who have severe glucagon deficiency?
Other groups are doing research on the long-term effects of recurrent hypoglycemia on the function of other organs. I just finished a study where we gave people naloxone during an episode of exercise to determine if they recognize their hypoglycemia the next day, but the study was just completed, so we do not have results yet.
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For severe low blood sugar, injected glucagon is the best treatment. Glucagon, a hormone made by the alpha cells in the pancreas, rapidly raises blood sugar by triggering a release of glucose from glycogen stores in the liver.
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What Causes Hypoglycemia Unawareness? Hypoglycemia unawareness may be triggered by: A recent history of frequent low blood sugars A rapid drop in blood sugar Having diabetes for Hyooglycemic years Stress or depression Situations where self-care is a low priority Alcohol consumption in the last 12 hours Previous low blood sugar in the last 24 to 48 hours Use of certain medications like beta-blockers.
Tips For Reversing Hypoglycemia Unawareness Reduce the frequency of your lows Be especially careful to avoid another low for at least two days following a reaction Test blood sugars often to note dropping numbers and treat them before they become lows Set your target blood sugars slightly higher so that you will experience no more than one or two insulin reactions per week Always match your insulin doses to anc in your lifestyle.
A recent history of frequent low blood sugars A rapid drop in blood sugar Having diabetes for many years Stress or depression Situations where self-care is a low priority Alcohol consumption in the last 12 hours Previous low blood sugar in the last 24 to 48 hours Use of certain medications like beta-blockers.
Reduce the frequency of your lows Be especially careful to avoid another low for at least two days following a reaction Test blood sugars often to note dropping numbers and treat them before they become lows Set your target blood sugars slightly higher so that you will experience no more than one or two insulin reactions per week Always match your insulin doses to changes in your lifestyle.
: Hypoglycemic unawareness and stress management| The consequences of hypoglycaemia | Although we covaried for age, BMI, and duration of diabetes, our findings among the T1DM-Unaware individuals should still be interpreted cautiously with recognition that it may be very difficult experimentally to separate the effects of age and longer duration of T1DM from the effects of hypoglycemia unawareness itself. The important thing is that we know for sure that hypoglycemia unawareness, or Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure HAAF requires these recurrent episodes of hypoglycemia to develop, which is really good news. This is especially important prior to and during critical tasks such as driving. Find articles by Parikh, L. Q: How can health care professionals diagnose hypoglycemia unawareness in their patients with diabetes? March 3. The data were motion corrected using SPM8 www. |
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Meticulous prevention of hypoglycemia normalizes the glycemic thresholds and magnitude of most of neuroendocrine responses to, symptoms of, and cognitive function during hypoglycemia in intensively treated patients with short-term IDDM. Dagogo-Jack S, Rattarasarn C, Cryer PE. Reversal of hypoglycemia unawareness, but not defective glucose counterregulation, in IDDM. Download references. In appreciation, we express our gratitude to Dr. Rafiee for sharing the patient history and encouraging us to share this case as a valuable subject for other physicians. Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, First Floor, No 10, Jalal-Al-Ahmad Street, North Kargar Avenue, Tehran, , Iran. Radiology Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 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Search all BMC articles Search. Download PDF. Abstract Background Hypoglycemia is a fairly common complication in diabetic patients, particularly in those on insulin therapy. Case presentation A year-old Iranian woman with HU presented with a severe hypoglycemic episode. Conclusions Hypoglycemia is a common complication in diabetic patients receiving oral or insulin therapy. Background Hypoglycemia is a relatively common complication in diabetic patients, particularly those on insulin therapy [ 1 ]. Case presentation A year-old Iranian woman weight: 57 kg; body mass index: Table 1 Results of the blood examination on first admission Full size table. Discussion Hypoglycemia is a common side effect of various diabetes medications, such as insulin and sulfonylureas [ 8 , 11 ]. The causes of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes, include: 1. Conclusions and learning points Hypoglycemia is a fairly common complication in diabetic patients receiving oral or insulin therapy. 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BOLD images were acquired during euglycemia between 45 and 60 minutes and hypoglycemia between 90 and minutes sessions. Participants completed a visual food task while BOLD images were collected, as described below. Throughout the MRI scan, blood was sampled for glucose every 5 minutes. Counterregulatory hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, and cortisol were sampled at 0, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, and minutes. Biochemical analysis. Plasma glucose was measured enzymatically using glucose oxidase YSI. Plasma-free insulin, leptin, ghrelin, and glucagon were measured by double-antibody radioimmunoassay Millipore , as was plasma cortisol MP Biomedicals. Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography ESA. Visual food cue task. The visual food cue task we used has been previously validated for fMRI 5 , During each euglycemia and hypoglycemia session, we presented a total of 42 images 3 runs of 14 pictures [7 high-calorie food images, 7 non-food images] each. High-calorie food pictures included items such as hamburgers, pizza, ice cream, and chocolate as previously described 5. Seventy-five percent of the high-calorie foods were also high-carbohydrate foods. Non-food pictures consisted of objects such as buildings, books, and doors. Using an event-related design, images were shown for 6 seconds. Each picture was displayed only once and the order of pictures was counterbalanced and randomized within condition across participants. At the end of each trial, a fixation cross appeared with a jittered inter-trial interval mean, 6 seconds; range, 3—9 seconds , during which participants relaxed until the onset of the next trial, as previously described 5. This process was repeated for each of the 3 runs that were presented at both euglycemia and hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia symptom assessments. Analysis of repeatedly measured variables such as plasma glucose was performed using the mixed-effects regression model method, taking into account both between-subject and within-subject correlations of repeated measures using a combination of prespecified compound symmetry covariance matrix and an autoregressive covariance matrix. Age, gender, and BMI were adjusted as covariates i. Subsequently, pair-wise comparisons at each time point were performed. To assess changes in counterregulatory hormones, plasma hormone levels at euglycemia 45 and 60 minutes and hormone levels at hypoglycemia 90 and minutes were averaged together and compared using paired t tests. All analyses were performed using SAS, version 9. A 2-tailed P value of less than 0. Unless otherwise stated, data are presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean SEM. Study approval. The protocol was approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee. All subjects provided informed, written consent before participation. fMRI analysis. The digital data Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine [DICOM] were converted to NIFTI using dcm2nii 62 and then the first 3 images were discarded from each functional run to enable the signal to achieve steady-state equilibrium between radio-frequency pulsing and relaxation leaving images per slice per run for analysis. The data were motion corrected using SPM8 www. Images were iteratively smoothed until the smoothness for any image had a full width half maximum of approximately 6 mm For individual subject data analysis, GLM was used to determine the regions with changes in signal in response to the visual task high-calorie food or non-food image in each session. To consider potential variability in baseline fMRI signal, drift correction was included in the GLM with drift regressors used to remove the mean time course, linear, quadratic, and cubic trends for each run. These 3 registrations were concatenated and applied as 1 registration to bring the data into a common reference brain space. The Colin27 Brain in the Montreal Neurological Institute MNI space was used as the reference brain. In this design, task and session were treated as the within-subjects fixed-effect factors and group as the between-subjects factor and subject as the random-effect factor. To correct for multiple comparisons, we used FWE correction determined by Monte Carlo simulation using the AFNI 3dClustSim version Results are shown at P less than 0. JJH and R. Sherwin had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. JJH, DS, RTC, R. Sinha, and R. Sherwin conceived and designed the study. JJH, LP, DS, CS, MH, WL, and RBD acquired the data. CL, JJH, FD, WL, and MH performed statistical analyses. All authors analyzed and interpreted the data and contributed to writing the manuscript. This study was supported in part by grants from the NIH R01DK and P30 DK to R. Sherwin , K23DK to JJH , and K08AA to DS. The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation was supported by an NIH Clinical Translational Science Award UL1 RR Role of funding source: The funding agencies had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. Conflict of interest: JJH and R. Sherwin report receipt of research support from Regeneron. RBD reports receipt of research support from Glaxo Smith Kline. Reference information: J Clin Invest. Go to JCI Insight. 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Published in Volume , Issue 4 on April 2, J Clin Invest. Copyright © , American Society for Clinical Investigation. Published January 30, - Version history Received: September 26, ; Accepted: January 23, Participant characteristics Thirteen HC individuals, 16 T1DM-Aware individuals as assessed by the Clarke score 14 , and 13 T1DM-Unaware individuals participated in this study. Table 1 Participant characteristics. Figure 1 Study design. Figure 4 Group × glycemia effects. Figure 5 Differences in regional brain responses between mild hypoglycemia and euglycemia conditions. Figure 6 Brain responses to high-calorie food cues. View Supplemental data View ICMJE disclosure forms. DIAMOND Project Group. Incidence and trends of childhood Type 1 diabetes worldwide Diabet Med. View this article via: PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar. View this article via: PubMed Google Scholar. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar. 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| Blog Tools | Board of Directors. The Team. Leadership Council. Join Us. Type 1 Info. Type 2 Info. Diabetes Management. Newly Diagnosed. Forms Of Diabetes. Autoimmune Diseases. Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes News. Food and Diabetes. School Resources. Previously Healthy. Beyond Type 1 App. Diabetes Scholars. Community Table. Marathon Team. Hypoglycemia avoidance restores awareness, but it is difficult to sustain. We compared adherence to treatment changes by awareness status. Case notes of 90 type 1 diabetic patients were analyzed retrospectively, identifying awareness status and insulin regimens over four visits. The proportion of patients adhering to advice and percent advice taken were calculated. A total of 31 patients with hypoglycemia awareness and 19 patients with hypoglycemia unawareness were identified, with insulin regimens available in 23 and 13, respectively. Reduced adherence to changes in insulin regimen in hypoglycemia unawareness is compatible with habituation to hypoglycemic stress. Therapies aimed at reversing repetitive harmful behaviors may be useful to restore hypoglycemia awareness and protection from severe hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia unawareness in type 1 diabetes increases risk of severe hypoglycemia more than fivefold 1. Hypoglycemia awareness can be restored by hypoglycemia avoidance 2 , — 4 , which can be difficult. We hypothesized that hypoglycemia unawareness may translate into resistance to changing insulin regimens targeting hypoglycemia avoidance. We conducted retrospective case-note analysis of 90 consecutive patients with type 1 diabetes, defined by history, attending an intensified insulin therapy clinic over 3 months. This was part of a routine clinic performance audit; therefore, patient consent was not required. Visit date, weight, A1C high-performance liquid chromatography assay, inter- and intra-assay variation of 1. Hypoglycemia awareness was defined by the clinicians' documentation 6. Adherence was defined using two methods. The proportion of agreed changes to insulin regimen adhered to across visits one to four was calculated for each set of consecutive visits one to two, two to three, and three to four and meaned to one value per patient. Adherence scores percent advice taken were also measured. A total of 23 aware patients and 13 unaware patients had sufficient data for these assessments. Age, sex, height, psychiatric history, and exposure to cognitive behavioral therapy were collected from visit 4. Data were analyzed using χ 2 or Mann-Whitney U test for categorical or non—normally distributed data; continuous data were tested for normality Kolmogorov-Smirnov and analyzed with Student's independent two-tailed t test. Of the 60 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 10 were excluded for partial awareness, leaving 31 with hypoglycemia awareness and 19 with hypoglycemia unawareness Table 1. DAFNE, Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating, a 5-day structured education program in flexible insulin therapy for type 1 diabetic patients. The mean study period for patients with hypoglycemia unawareness was shorter than for patients with hypoglycemia awareness, reflecting shorter intervals between scheduled visits. Patients with hypoglycemia unawareness were older, with longer diabetes duration. There were no significant differences between groups in sex, weight or BMI, proportion previously attending DAFNE before audit, and proportion with psychiatric morbidity or history of previous coincidental cognitive behavioral therapy. At visit 1, hypoglycemia-unaware patients had lower A1C, despite lower daily insulin doses. By visit 4, A1C in the hypoglycemia-unaware group had risen to 7. Their insulin dose remained lower 0. Nine of 17 hypoglycemia-unaware patients A total of 7 of 13 A smaller percentage of advice was followed by patients with hypoglycemia unawareness More patients with previous contact with liaison psychiatry were adherent Adherence was higher in patients who had experienced cognitive behavioral therapy Type 1 diabetic patients with hypoglycemia unawareness were older, with longer diabetes duration, more severe hypoglycemia, and lower A1C than patients with hypoglycemia awareness, consistent with published literature 7. The novel finding is that patients with hypoglycemia unawareness were significantly less adherent to agreed changes to insulin regimens than their hypoglycemia-aware counterparts, in spite of increased clinical contact. An apparent lack of benefit of this, with a rise in A1C and no change in awareness status, could relate to exclusion of 11 potentially eligible patients undertaking major changes to their diabetes management known to improve A1C and reduce hypoglycemia, group-structured education in flexible insulin therapy, or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion 8 , 9. Treatment targets in hypoglycemia unawareness focus on hypoglycemia avoidance 3 , 5 , and the lower A1C of our hypoglycemia-unaware group at study start may have been in part related to greater exposure to hypoglycemia, a driver for unawareness. The explicit aim of treatment adjustments was impossible to assess from notes, but our data, with a rise in A1C in hypoglycemia-unaware patients, argue against benefit of relaxation of glycemic control alone rather than hypoglycemia avoidance per se to improve hypoglycemia awareness Interestingly, patients who had attended coincidental cognitive behavioral therapy had a higher adherence than those who had not, although numbers were too small to analyze this by awareness status. The audit was limited in that it was retrospective, not blinded, and did not use formal scoring to define awareness 2 , 11 or document discussion around insulin regimen change. Nevertheless, clinic notes were consistent in explicit documentation of the physician's assessment of awareness status. Where this was absent, the notes were excluded. The International Hypoglycaemia Study Group Glucose concentrations of less than 3. Diabetologia —6. 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