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Quantitative EEG in type 1 diabetic adults with childhood exposure to severe hypoglycaemia: a 16 year follow-up study.

ABSTRACT: AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: In diabetic children and adolescents, a history of severe hypoglycaemia (SH) has been associated with increased slow EEG activity and reduced cognition, possibly due to harmful effects of SH on the developing brain. In a group of type 1 diabetic patients with early exposure to SH, who had EEG abnormalities and reduced cognition in childhood, we have recently demonstrated that the reduced cognition may persist into adulthood. We have now assessed whether the reduced cognition was accompanied by lasting EEG abnormalities. METHODS: In 1992-1993, we studied EEG and cognition in 28 diabetic children and 28 matched controls. 16 years later, we re-investigated the same participants, with 96% participation rate. Diabetic participants were classified as with (n = 9) or without (n = 18) early SH, defined as episodes with convulsions or loss of consciousness by 10 years of age. For each EEG band (delta, theta, alpha and beta) and cerebral region (frontocentral, temporal, and parietooccipital), we calculated relative amplitudes and amplitude asymmetry. We also calculated occipital alpha mean frequency, alpha peak frequency at maximum amplitude, alpha peak width, and theta regional mean frequencies. We examined whether these EEG measures, relative to age- and sex-matched controls, differed between diabetic participants with and without early SH. RESULTS: We found no association of early SH with any of the EEG measures. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION: Childhood SH was not associated with EEG abnormalities in young type 1 diabetic adults. Our findings suggest that the reduced adulthood cognition associated with childhood exposure to SH is not accompanied by lasting EEG abnormalities.

SUBMITTER: Asvold BO

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3149676 | biostudies-other | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Quantitative EEG in type 1 diabetic adults with childhood exposure to severe hypoglycaemia: a 16 year follow-up study.

Åsvold B O BO Sand T T Hestad K A KA Bjørgaas M R MR

Diabetologia 20110603 9

<h4>Aims/hypothesis</h4>In diabetic children and adolescents, a history of severe hypoglycaemia (SH) has been associated with increased slow EEG activity and reduced cognition, possibly due to harmful effects of SH on the developing brain. In a group of type 1 diabetic patients with early exposure to SH, who had EEG abnormalities and reduced cognition in childhood, we have recently demonstrated that the reduced cognition may persist into adulthood. We have now assessed whether the reduced cognit ...[more]

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