Blood glucose and prognosis in children with presumed severe malaria: Is there a threshold for 'hypoglycaemia'?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-240

  Willcox, Merlin L ^a,b   Forster, Mathieu ^c,d   Dicko, Moussa I ^e   Graz, Bertrand ^b,f   Mayon White, Richard ^a   Barennes, Hubert ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Antenna Technologies   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g Institut Francophone Pour la Médecine Tropicale   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

Blood glucose; Case fatality; Cohort study; Hypoglycaemia; Prognosis; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CHILD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE; MALARIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVOR;

MALI;

EID: 74349122622     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02444.x     Document Type: Article

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