Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity (Mar 2023)

Associations of Colonoscopy and Risk of Hypoglycemia in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

  • Yang H,
  • Liu D,
  • Zeng L,
  • Peng S,
  • Liu H

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 16
pp. 893 – 900

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Haiyan Yang,1 Deliang Liu,1 Lin Zeng,1,2 Siping Peng,1 Huiling Liu1 1Department of Endocrinology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China; 2Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Deliang Liu, Department of Endocrinology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, No. 1 Fuhua Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518034, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]: Inpatients undergoing colonoscopy may be at increased risk of hypoglycemia. However, few high-quality studies have examined the relationship between hypoglycemia and colonoscopy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Patients and Methods: A total of 1016 patients from a large tertiary hospital were enrolled in this retrospective study. We collected demographic information, laboratory indices, colonoscopy information and hypoglycemia information from the enrolled patients during hospitalization. Logistic regression analysis was adopted to estimate the adjusted odds ratios to determine the association between hypoglycemia and colonoscopy.Results: Hypoglycemia occurred in 80 of 788 (10.1%) patients without colonoscopy exposure and 37 of 228 (16.2%) patients with colonoscopy exposure. 25 patients (67.6%) had hypoglycemic events from 3 hours to 68 hours after the end of colonoscopy. Adjusting for demographic and clinical covariates, the risk of hypoglycemia was 1.99 times higher in those who underwent colonoscopy than in those who did not (OR 1.99, 95% CI 1.25– 3.19). The association was consistent in subgroups of females, the elderly, the overweight patients, patients with long duration of disease or patients with suboptimal glycemic control.Conclusion: A strong association between colonoscopy and an increased risk of hypoglycemia is observed in patients with T2DM. When performing a colonoscopy for diabetics, the risk of hypoglycemia should be considered even within 68 hours after colonoscopy.Keywords: hypoglycemia, colonoscopy, type 2 diabetes mellitus, retrospective study, fasting

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