Having one retrospectively reported episode of severe hypoglycemia, collision, hypoglycemia-related mishap, or mild symptomatic hypoglycemia while driving increased the risk of a driving mishap in the next 12 months by 6, 20, 6, and 3%, respectively.
When 452 drivers with type 1 diabetes were followed prospectively for a year, baseline reports of prior episodes of mild symptomatic hypoglycemia while driving or severe hypoglycemia while driving, hypoglycemia-related driving mishaps, or hypoglycemia-related collisions were associated with a higher risk of driving mishaps in the following 12 months by 3, 6, 6, and 20%, respectively.
While Radaker was experiencing many of the symptoms of other men in the unit — insomnia, mild claustrophobia, the occasional nightmare — driving was, for him, a special challenge.
Two or three days later, he was sent home and although there was some mild discomfort and a ban on driving for a couple of weeks, he felt back to normal after just a few weeks.
For example, the probability of participants with mild hearing loss to have a driving license was higher than of participants with profound hearing loss (OR = 9.42).
However, this rule is not true in a strict sense for arbitrary driving processes and requires some mild approximations to make it a more general statement.
For each simulator session, a visual analog scale (VAS) was completed by the driver at baseline (i.e., before driving), after the practice drive and after the experimental run (VAS 10-cm scale; 0 = no symptom, 10 = mild nausea).
But because the disease's symptoms and progression rate vary greatly among mild-stage patients, there is disagreement about their driving.
Then a mild electric current is turned on for five minutes, driving the pilocarpine into the skin.
The different types of driving are usually known as severe and mild (which is also sometimes called normal), Mr. Sutherland said, which seems counterintuitive since most of us probably don't think we drive in severe conditions.
