Gin and tonic and reactive hypoglycemia: What is important-the gin, the tonic, or both?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 796-800

  Flanagan, Daniel ^a   Wood, Peter ^b   Sherwin, Robert ^c   Debrah, Kwasi ^a   Kerr, David ^a  

^a ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEVERAGES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; MALE;

EID: 0031764201     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.3.796     Document Type: Article

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