Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypoglycemia is defined as a blood sugar less than 4mmol/l. It is defined clinically in the presence of Whipple’s triad, characterized by signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia, low plasma glucose and reversal of symptoms on correction of hypoglycemia. Inpatients prevalence of hypoglycemia ranges from 3.5% to 10.5% with the majority of patients affected having diabetes and receiving insulin therapy1. Hypoglycemia is one of the side effects of intensive ...