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Hypoglycaemia
The American Diabetes Association Workgroup on Hypoglycaemia suggests the following classification and definitions of hypoglycaemia:
Severe hypoglycaemia
An event requiring assistance of another person to actively administer carbohydrate, glucagon, or other resuscitative actions. These episodes may be associated with sufficient neuroglycopenia to induce seizure or coma. Plasma glucose measurements may not be available during such an event, but neurological recovery attributable to the restoration of plasma glucose to normal is considered sufficient evidence that the event was induced by a low plasma glucose concentration.
Documented symptomatic hypoglycaemia
An event during which typical symptoms of hypoglycaemia are accompanied by a measured plasma glucose concentration 70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/l).
Asymptomatic Hypoglycaemia
An event not accompanied by typical symptoms of hypoglycaemia but with a measured plasma glucose concentration 70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/l).
Since the glycaemic threshold for activation of glucagon and adrenaline secretion
as glucose levels decline is normally 65-
