TY  - JOUR
T1  - FOod insecurity and hypoglycemia among safety net patients with diabetes
AU  - Seligman HK, Jacobs EA, Lopez A, Sarkar U, Tschann J, Fernandez A
Y1  - 2011/07/11
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.287
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1204
EP  - 1206
VL  - 171
IS  - 13
N2  - 
In 2008, 1 in every 7 US households was food insecure or at risk of going hungry because of an inability to afford food.1 Food insecurity generally occurs cyclically and episodically, with periods of food adequacy followed by food scarcity; the average food-insecure household experiences 7 episodes of food scarcity annually.2 We hypothesized that the cyclic nature of food insecurity and its associated fluctuations in dietary intake would predispose patients with diabetes to wide variations in blood glucose levels, including clinically significant hypoglycemia.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.287
ER  -