Hypoglycaemia in African children with severe malaria.
Hypoglycaemia, defined as a plasma glucose concentration below 2.2 mmol/l, developed in 15 of 47 prospectively studied Gambian children with severe chloroquine-sensitive falciparum malaria. 5 of these hypoglycaemic children died compared with 1 in the normoglycaemic group (p = 0.02). In contrast to...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1987
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