Endocrine Abstracts

Hypoglycaemia – especially in elderly hospital in-patients – is far less uncommon in non-diabetic patients than was previously thought but is only very rarely due to accidental or malicious ‘insulin’ (including insulin analogues and sulphonylurea) administration. The question of when to suspect that this might be the case and how to confirm or refute it is one that crops up from time to time in every community. Sometimes it is relatively simple and easy to ...