Patients with severe muscle wasting are prone to develop hypoglycemia during fasting

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 997-1000

  Orngreen M C ^a   Zacho, M ^a   Hebert, A ^a   Laub, M ^a   Vissing, John ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EID: 0141959152     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000086813.59722.72     Document Type: Article

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