Does moderately severe hypoglycemia cause cognitive dysfunction in children?

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 59-62

  Ryan, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOLASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; INSULIN; PROTEIN S 100;

BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTRAVENOUS GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA;

EID: 3142767665     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-543X.2004.00044.x     Document Type: Editorial

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