Helen Barraclough

Introduction Worldwide, there are approximately 537 million people with diabetes, and prevalence rates are increasing rapidly.1 In Australia, 8.2% of adults aged 20–79 years were diagnosed with diabetes in 2021,1 and based on national data from 2021, type 2 diabetes (T2D) accounted for 85.5% of all cases of diabetes.2 T2D is a chronic and complex metabolic disease characterized by insulin insufficiency and resistance.3,4 T2D is associated with chronic and severe complications, including...

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Since recent changes in therapies and management may have influenced the risk of severe hypoglycaemia complicating type 2 diabetes, we determined its incidence and predictors in community‐based patients studied between 2008 and 2013 and compared them with those in a cohort with type 2 diabetes from the same geographical area assessed a decade earlier.