Managing diabetes in the heat: Potential issues and concerns

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 506-511

  Westphal, Sydney A ^a   Childs, Raymond D ^a   Seifert, Karen M ^a   Boyle, Mary E ^a   Fowke, Margaret ^b   Iñiguez, Paul ^c   Cook, Curtiss B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; CATECHOLAMINE; FATTY ACID; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; INSULIN ZINC SUSPENSION; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; SEMILENTE MC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEHYDRATION; DESERT; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STORAGE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HEAT STROKE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTHERMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN METABOLISM; INSULIN PUMP; INSULIN RESPONSE; INSULIN TREATMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; SUN EXPOSURE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEAT; PATHOLOGY;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 77956620872     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09344.RA     Document Type: Review

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