QT Prolongation Common in Patients Taken to Hospital with Severe Hypoglycemia

MedPage Today (8/17, Fiore) reported that research published online in Diabetes Care suggests that individuals with diabetes who are “taken to the hospital for severe hypoglycemia have a high prevalence of QT prolongation.” Researchers found, “in a retrospective study at a single center in Tokyo, 50% of patients with type 1 diabetes and 59.9% of those with type 2 disease had a prolonged QT interval during hospitalization for severe hypoglycemia.”