n addition to this, Dr Jarvis warns that alcohol with a high sugar content can lead to ‘hypoglycaemia unawareness’. In other words, diabetes sufferers who have been drinking won’t notice the warning signs of low blood sugar. As Dr Jarvis explains, this results in “a much higher risk of the most dangerous kind of hypos in which blood sugar is very low and there are significantly higher risks of cardiac arrhythmias, brain damage (and) myocardial infarction”.