[Diabetes and road traffic collisions].
Insulin-treated diabetes influences motor vehicle driving mainly through the possibility to induce hypoglycemia in patients. However, there has never been any consistent evidence to suggest that patients with insulin-treated diabetes cause significantly more accidents than the general population. Diabetes and its complications have very various individual courses in patients, because of that candidates for driver's license should always be qualified individually. Drivers with diabetes complications, especially the elderly, quite often themselves limit driving. The programme facilitating the diagnosis of early hypoglycemic symptoms--Blood Glucose Awareness Training--decreases road traffic collision number.
Katedra i Klinika Chorób Wewnetrznych, Geriatrii i Toksykologii, Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku.
Zygmunt
Z
Chodorowski
Jacek Sein
JS
Anand
Adam
A
Hajduk
Marek
M
Wiśniewski
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015984:Causality; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007328:Insulin / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology
D007328:Insulin