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Methods: This cross-sectional\u00a0observational study took place at 25 patient care centres in the UAE from October 2014 to May 2015. All adult patients\u00a0with T1DM or T2DM who had been treated with insulin for &gt;12 months were included. Self-assessment questionnaires\u00a0and patient diaries were used to determine the incidence of documented hypoglycaemia both prospectively (four weeks\u00a0after baseline) and retrospectively (six months and four weeks before baseline for severe and non-severe hypoglycaemic\u00a0events, respectively). Results: A total of 325 patients were enrolled in the study, of which 82 (25.2%) had T1DM and\u00a0243 (74.8%) had T2DM. Among patients with T1DM, 71.4% reported hypoglycaemic events retrospectively, with an\u00a0incidence rate (IR) of 102.8 events per patient-year (PY), while 95% reported hypoglycaemic events prospectively, with an\u00a0IR of 63.1 events per PY. Additionally, 56.3% of patients with T2DM reported hypoglycaemic events retrospectively, with\u00a0an IR of 42.2 events per PY, while 91.9% reported hypoglycaemic events prospectively, with an IR of 33.3 events per PY.\u00a0Conclusion: The prevalence and incidence of hypoglycaemia were high among insulin-treated patients with T1DM and T2DM in the UAE. Individualised glycaemic goals, patient education and blood glucose monitoring may help to reduce\u00a0the incidence of hypoglycaemia in this population.Keywords: Hypoglycemia; Insulin; Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; United Arab Emirates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.18295\/squmj.2018.18.04.004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,28]],"date-time":"2019-03-28T13:15:05Z","timestamp":1553778905000},"page":"447","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Hypoglycaemia Among Insulin-Treated Patients with Diabetes: Evaluation of the United Arab Emirates cohort of the International Operations-Hypoglycaemia Assessment Tool study"],"prefix":"10.18295","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Salah","family":"Abusnana","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Salem A.","family":"Beshyah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nawal","family":"Al-Mutawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rima","family":"Tahhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mahir","family":"Jallo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ravi","family":"Arora","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hazem","family":"Aly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sagar","family":"Singhal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"7681","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,28]]},"container-title":["Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal [SQUMJ]"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.squ.edu.om\/index.php\/squmj\/article\/viewFile\/2985\/2582","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.squ.edu.om\/index.php\/squmj\/article\/viewFile\/2985\/2582","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,9]],"date-time":"2025-04-09T14:51:51Z","timestamp":1744210311000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/mjournal.squ.edu.om\/home\/vol18\/iss4\/4"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,28]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,28]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18295\/squmj.2018.18.04.004","relation":{},"ISSN":["2075-0528","2075-051X"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"2075-0528"},{"type":"print","value":"2075-051X"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,28]]}}}