Transient Hyperglycemia in Acute Childhood Illnesses: To Attend or Ignore?

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-210

  Gupta, Piyush ^a,b   Natarajan, Girija ^a   Agarwal, K N ^a  

^a UCMS AND GTB HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Near Telephone Exchange   (India)

Author keywords

Acute illness; Childhood; Hyperglycemia; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031082343     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02752447     Document Type: Article

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