Hypoglycemia in hospitalized adult patients without diabetes

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Mendoza, Ana ^a   Kim, Young Nam ^a   Chernoff, Arthur ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Einstein Endocrine Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 18744385835     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.11.2.91     Document Type: Article

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