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6. Glycemic Goals and Hypoglycemia: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025

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American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee, ElSayed, Nuha A., McCoy, Rozalina G., Aleppo, Grazia, Balapattabi, Kirthikaa, Beverly, Elizabeth A., Briggs Early, Kathaleen, Bruemmer, Dennis +16 more·2025·Diabetes Care

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The American Diabetes Association (ADA) “Standards of Care in Diabetes” includes the ADA’s current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, an interprofessional expert committee, are responsible for updating the Standards of Care annually, or more frequently as warranted. For a detailed description of ADA standards, statements, and reports, as well as the evidence-grading system for ADA’s clinical practice recommendations and a full list of Professional Practice Committee members, please refer to Introduction and Methodology. Readers who wish to comment on the Standards of Care are invited to do so at professional.diabetes.org/SOC.

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  • The common recommendation for hypoglycemia treatment (15 g simple carbohydrates, recheck in 15 min) was predominantly based on expert opinion and two small-sized studies of intravenous insulin-induced hypoglycemia in people living with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

    “Remarkably, this “15 grams/15 minutes” treatment is solely based on expert opinion, and two frequently-referenced, small-sized studies of intravenous insulin-induced hypoglycemia in people living with T1D [3–7].”

    From Systematic review of oral carbohydrate treatment for hypoglycemia in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (2026) · cites this paper as [4]

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  • The majority of non-severe hypoglycemia events are treated by the person living with diabetes with oral ingestion of simple carbohydrates to rapidly raise blood glucose levels.

    “The majority of non-severe hypoglycemia events are treated by the person living with diabetes with oral ingestion of simple carbohydrates to rapidly raise the blood glucose levels [3–5].”

    From Systematic review of oral carbohydrate treatment for hypoglycemia in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (2026) · cites this paper as [4]

    The Hypoglycemia Treatment section recommends that individuals treat hypoglycemia with fast-acting carbohydrates and says glucose-containing carbohydrates raise blood glucose. The Hypoglycemia Definitions and Event Rates section says level 1 and 2 events make up the vast majority of hypoglycemic events. Neither section establishes that the majority of non-severe events are actually self-treated with oral carbohydrates; the treatment passage gives a recommendation, not an observed rate. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Lack of timely treatment of Level 1 hypoglycemia leads to Level 2 hypoglycemia.

    “Lack to timely treatment will then lead to Level 2 hypoglycemia (glucose below 3.0 mmol/L), also known as moderate hypoglycemia, when the person living with diabetes experiences neuroglycopenic symptoms such as confusion, drowsiness, slurred speech, and weakness [3–5].”

    From Systematic review of oral carbohydrate treatment for hypoglycemia in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (2026) · cites this paper as [4]

    The paper’s “Hypoglycemia Definitions and Event Rates” section defines level 2 as glucose below 3.0 mmol/L, where neuroglycopenic symptoms begin. “Hypoglycemia Treatment” advises treating at the level 1 alert threshold of 3.9 mmol/L or less. It does not say that failure to treat level 1 will necessarily lead to level 2. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • The 15 g/15 min recommendation has been widespread in clinical guidelines for the past few decades and has been suggested for both people living with T2D and type 1 diabetes mellitus.

    “This recommendation has been widespread in clinical guidelines for the past few decades and has been suggested for both people living with T2D and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) [3–5].”

    From Systematic review of oral carbohydrate treatment for hypoglycemia in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (2026) · cites this paper as [4]

    The Hypoglycemia Treatment section recommends 15 g of carbohydrate for most individuals with diabetes and a glucose check 15 minutes later; the paper discusses hypoglycemia in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It does not establish that this recommendation has been widespread across clinical guidelines for the past few decades, and it specifies a lower carbohydrate amount for most users of automated insulin delivery systems. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Sustained near-normoglycemia is associated with fewer chronic complications and better quality of life in people with type 1 diabetes.

    “sustained near-normoglycemia is associated with fewer chronic complications and better quality of life [1,2,3].”

    From Does Resistant Starch Formed by Cooling Pasta Decrease the Postprandial Glycemic Response in Type 1 Diabetes? A Randomized Single-Blind Crossover Study (2026) · cites this paper as [3]

    The “Glucose Lowering and Microvascular Complications” section reports that better glycemic status in people with type 1 diabetes is associated with fewer microvascular complications, with benefits persisting during follow-up. The paper does not establish that sustained near-normoglycemia improves quality of life; its quality-of-life discussion instead concerns the adverse effects of hypoglycemia and the benefits of hypoglycemia-awareness training. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee, ElSayed, N. A., McCoy, R. G., Aleppo, G., Balapattabi, K., Beverly, E. A., Briggs Early, K., Bruemmer, D., Echouffo-Tcheugui, J. B., Ekhlaspour, L., Garg, R., Khunti, K., Lal, R., Lingvay, I., Matfin, G., Pandya, N., Pekas, E. J., Pilla, S. J., Polsky, S., Segal, A. R., Seley, J. J., Selvin, E., Stanton, R. C., & Bannuru, R. R.
Venue
Diabetes Care
Published
2024-12-09
Volume
48
Issue
Supplement_1
Pages
S128-S145
ISSN
  • 0149-5992 (ISSN-L)
  • 1935-5548
OpenAlex
W4405187500
Cited by
440
References
179
Citations by year
2026: 197 · 2025: 214 · 2024: 29
FWCI
25.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Diabetes Care (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K23DK121942)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Education
Keywords
glycemic targets, hypoglycemia, diabetes management, glycemic control, hypoglycemia prevention, quality of care
MeSH terms
Glycemic Control, Blood Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus, Humans, Hypoglycemia, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Standard of Care

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