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1: Arch Dis Child. 1988 Nov;63(11):1386-8.Click here to read Links

Neonatal hypoglycaemia--the controversy regarding definition.

Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Major paediatric textbooks and the views of neonatologists in the United Kingdom were surveyed to establish a definition of neonatal hypoglycaemia. The definition ranged from a glucose concentration of less than 1 mmol/l to less than 4 mmol/l. Hypoglycaemia is recognised to cause neurological sequelae and yet there is no accepted definition of the lower limit of normality for circulating blood glucose concentrations.

PMID: 3202648 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1779139