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J Arak Uni Med Sci 2001, 4(2): 28-32 |
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Kahbazi M. Prevalence of Hypoglycemia in Low Birth Weight Newborns in Taleghani of Arak From March to August 1999. J Arak Uni Med Sci 2001; 4 (2) :28-32
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Faculty of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
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Hypoglycemia is one of the most common preventable and curable metabolic disorders, especially seen in low birth weight infants. About 80% of hypoglycemic conditions are asymptomatic or the symptoms will present between the third to fifth days after birth that infants are discharged from the hospital. However even in asymptomatic cases, hypoglycemia has exposed the infant to sever defects of nervous system development which these defects depended on duration and severity of hypoglycemia will be remained as reduction of head circumference and psychomotor disorders for child especially in 3 to 5 years old. We studied 284 LBW infants that about 5.2% of them were hypoglycemic in the first 24 hours after birth. (Blood glucose was less than 30, g/dl). About 80% of cases were asymptomatic. 20% of showed were symptomatic such as hypotonia, generalixed convulsion with apena and total cyanosis. These infants were of twin pregnancy or Cesarian section. We also studied infants based on gestational age. (Preterm & IUGR) The prevalence of hypoglycemia in preterm infants was 2.3% and 6.6% in IUGR infants. There was no significant relation between the sex and incidence of hypoglycemia . The most common prevalence of hypoglycemia were seen in infants with body weight between 1500 -2000 grams.
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