Hospital admissions for a short-term and avoidable complication of diabetes have risen by 39 per cent in the last 10 years, a new analysis has concluded.
Almost 80,000 people were admitted to hospital in England for hypoglycaemia – where the blood sugar of a person with diabetes drops to dangerously low levels – for a total of 101,475 episodes between 2005 and 2014, an NIHR-supported study carried out at the Leicester Diabetes Centre found. To read more, click here.