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FUNCTIONAL HYPOGLYCEMIA OF CHILDHOODWITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RECURRENT CONVULSIVE MANIFESTATIONS
JOHN MOTT RECTOR, M.D.;
ROBERT E. JENNINGS, M.D.
Am J Dis Child. 1937;53(4):1012-1021.
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Since the genesis of simple methods for the determination of glycemia, there have been numerous publications regarding the conditions in which hypoglycemia obtains. Most of these have been concerned with the hypoglycemia of adults, and recently special attention has been directed toward so-called hyperinsulinism.
Moderate glycometabolic defects, of an intensity sufficient to induce "silent" hypoglycemia, are not uncommon during infancy and childhood. We have reviewed the blood sugar values for five hundred and seventy-two patients under 12 years of age admitted to this clinic and have found that forty-three, or 7.5 per cent, presented hypoglycemic levels ranging from 50 to 69 mg. per hundred cubic centimeters. These children were hospitalized because of apparently unrelated disorders and presented no hypoglycemic manifestations.
In contradistinction, hypoglycemia associated with convulsions is undoubtedly more rare, yet eleven patients with this type of disorder were observed in the Infants' and Children's Hospitals from 1930 to 1934
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Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO; EAST ORANGE, N. J.
From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Infants' and Children's Hospitals, Boston.
Footnotes
Read before the Pediatric Section of the California Medical Association at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Session, Coronado, Calif., May 25, 1936.
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