Cortisol and growth hormone responses to spontaneous hypoglycaemia in infants and children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 472-478

  Crofton, P M ^a   Midgley, P C ^b  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2342446619     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.033431     Document Type: Review

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