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Hypoglycemia is a considerable challenge for most with diabetes because it prevents many folks from maintaining a normal blood glucose level. Diabetics can keep their blood glucose levels low enough to prevent long term complications such as vision related problems, kidney disease and nerve disorders, but the issue of avoiding heart disease requires an even lower level of blood glucose which is very difficult to maintain because of the threat of hypoglycemia. This is especially true for folks with type 1 diabetes. A normal blood glucose level runs between 80 and 140 mg/dl. The issue here is that hypoglycemia starts at just below 80 mg/dl, but symptoms may not present themselves until your blood glucose drops below 60 mg/dl.

,Recent estimates have shown that roughly 3 percent of the world's population has diabetes. But by 2030, that figure is expected to rise to 4.4 percent. These figures may not sound like a whole lot, but consider them this way - there are well over 170 million people in the world with diabetes. That 4.4 percent figure equates to 366 million people, which is just a scootch more than the US population!