An Evaluation of Methods of Assessing Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
Response to Pedersen-Bjergaard et al.
- Jacqueline Geddes, MB, CHB, MRCP(UK) and
- Brian M. Frier, MD, FRCPE
- Department of Diabetes, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K
- Address correspondence to Prof. Brian M. Frier, MD, Department of Diabetes, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, U.K. E-mail: brian.frier{at}luht.scot.nhs.uk
We thank Pedersen-Bjergaard et al. (1) for their comments regarding our study (2). In our study, the ability of three methods (Gold et al. [3], Clarke et al. [4], and Pedersen-Bjergaard et al. [5]) to identify impaired awareness of hypoglycemia (IAH) in people with type 1 diabetes was evaluated. The method that was initially described by Pedersen-Bjergaard et al. (5) required patients to respond to the question, “Can you feel when you are low?” and asked them to select …
