Hypoglycemia in prisoners

Czech version

Authors: Jozef Lacka ¹; Dominika Rubintová ²
Authors‘ workplace: JAL, s. r. o., Trnava ¹; PharmNova, s. r. o., Trnava ²
Published in: Forum Diab 2020; 9(1): 38-42
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Overview

The health care for prisoners – patients with type 2 as well as type 1 diabetes mellitus is provided by diabetologists based on regional location of prisons. The numbers of prisoners are rising, whereby also the numbers of patients in prisons increase. Most prisoners have primary education and secondary education without completing the final exams. Hypoglycemia may play a role during the time of making a decision to commit an offence. Hypoglycemia may occur too for different reasons during the first phase of being held in custody or while serving a sentence. Present-day technological possibilities allow for the improvement of management of patients with diabetes mellitus in prison. The ensuing challenge is to ascertain the number of prisoners with diabetes in Slovak prisons, and conduct a study into the management of these patients.

Keywords:

diabetes mellitus – hypoglycemia – prisoners

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