THE liver plays an important role in the metabolism of carbohydrates. Clinical investigators have frequently reported observations of disturbed carbohydrate metabolism in the presence of liver disease ...

Standard intravenous, cortisone-modified intravenous and oral glucose tolerance tests were carried out in 10 Negro men with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency and in 10 normal Negro ...

Hyperglycemia has been associated with death in critically ill patients, and controlling blood glucose level during such illness has been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity. In a retrospective ...

Newborns with low blood sugar face the prospect of a trip to the intensive care unit and intravenous infusions of glucose. A new study finds a simpler way: rubbing a sweet gel onto the insides of ...

We investigated the role of insulin and glucose in the pathophysiology of hypertension associated with obesity. The comparative effects of an oral glucose load and of an L-arginine infusion on plasma ...

The goal of intrapartum management is to maintain normoglycemia in order to prevent neonatal hypoglycemia. Patients with diet-controlled diabetes will not require intrapartum insulin and may simply ...

A new study suggests that dextrose gel should be used to treat low blood sugars in newborn babies (neonatal-hypoglycemia) – a common and preventable cause of brain damage. Dextrose gel is an oral ...

Term neonates, children and young people receiving intravenous (IV) fluid therapy have their plasma electrolyte concentrations and blood glucose measured when starting IV fluids and then at least ...

Dextrose gel is a cheap, easy way to correct neonatal hypoglycemia, according to a report published online September 25 in the Lancet. Neonatal hypoglycemia affects 5% to 15% of otherwise healthy ...