People with diabetes should be on guard against nocturnal hypoglycemia or night time low blood sugar because this can cause coma, seizures, brain damage and death, according to Dr. Richard Elwyn Fernando, a diabetes specialist and president of Diabetes Philippines.

Fernando said that nocturnal hypoglycemia affects up to 50 percent of adults with Type 1 diabetes and over 33 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes – one of the country’s top killers.

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