Severe hypoglycaemia requiring the assistance of emergency medical services - frequency, causes and symptoms

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 156, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages 271-277

  Krnacova, Veronika ^a   Kubena, Ales ^a,b   Macek, Karel ^a,c   Bezdek, Martin ^d   Smahelovae, Alena ^c,e   Vlcek, Jiri ^a,c  

^a Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^d Emergency Medical Service   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Causes; Emergency medical service; Incidence; Regression trees; Severe hypoglycaemia; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE;

EID: 84867617930     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 18047521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2012.037     Document Type: Article

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