The burden of severe hypoglycemia on quality of life among diabetes mellitus patients in a tertiary level hospital of Bangladesh

• DOI: 10.4103/ijem.ijem_338_17
• Publication Date: 2018-07-31T07:19:12Z
• Authors: Afsar Ahammed; Faruque Pathan; Faria Afsana; Imran Ahammed; AhmedSalam Mir; Abdullah Yusuf
• Keywords: Glycated hemoglobin; Cross-sectional study

This study aimed to determine the impact of hypoglycemia on health-related quality life from a patient perspective.A cross-sectional was conducted in 164 type 2 diabetes patients admitted due severe August 2015 October 2016 at Bangladesh Institute Research and Rehabilitation Diabetes, Endocrine Metabolic Disorders, Dhaka. Impact diabetic evaluated using disease-specific questionnaire audit diabetes-dependent life-19 (ADDQOL-19).The median ADDQOL score calculated -3.31. Totally, 88 (53.7%) reported an - 3.31 or more, 76 (46.3%) had less than -3.31 (lower [QoL]). After considering weighting, "Freedom eat" (mean Weighted Score-6.32 ± 1.94) most "Holidays" Score-0.96 0.19) least affected QoL domains, respectively. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, related with age (odds ratio [OR] 0.932, 95% confidence intervals [CIs] 0.897-0.969, P < 0.001), sex (OR 0.088, CIs 0.023-0.338, glycated hemoglobin (%) 0.613, 0.422-0.890, = 0.010), marital status 9.264, 2.467-34.790, 0.001).The results this analysis suggest impacts heavily well-being people diabetes, every effort should be made minimize while aiming for good glycemic control.