RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Neonatal hypoglycaemia--the controversy regarding definition.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 1386
OP 1388
DO 10.1136/adc.63.11.1386
VO 63
IS 11
A1 T H Koh
A1 J A Eyre
A1 A Aynsley-Green
YR 1988
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/63/11/1386.abstract
AB 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.