Lactate, rather than ketones, may provide alternative cerebral fuel in hypoglycaemic newborns

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2015, Pages F161-F164

  Harris, Deborah L ^a,b   Weston, Philip J ^a   Harding, Jane E ^b  

^a WAIKATO DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; KETONE; LACTIC ACID; PLACEBO; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; ANALYSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; BREAST FEEDING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BREAST FEEDING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; KETONES; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84923371021     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306435     Document Type: Article

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