Previous blood sugar levels can influence an individual's response to a particular level of blood sugar. However, one must appreciate that a patient with chronic hypoglycemia can have almost no symptoms. Hypoglycemia is a known complication of several medications, and the incidence is difficult to determine with any certainty. Mortality is not observed. Hypoglycemia occurring as a complication of therapy for diabetes is common.
Mild hypoglycemia occurs in more than half of all patients with diabetes who are in therapy.
No known racial predilection exists. Other causes of hypoglycemia are not associated with a sex predilection. The average age of a patient diagnosed with an insulinoma is the early 40s, but cases have been reported in patients ranging from birth to age 80 years. Neurogenic symptoms include sweating, shakiness, tachycardia, and anxiety. The timing of the onset of these symptoms is crucial in the evaluation of a patient with hypoglycemia.