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Hypoglycaemia and seizures in large‐for‐gestational‐age (LGA) full‐term neonates
Author(s) -
Groenendaal Floris,
ElferinkStinkens Patty M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2006.tb02359.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , gestational age , full term , percentile , term (time) , pregnancy , statistics , genetics , quantum mechanics , biology , physics , mathematics
Aim/methods: To assess the risk of hypoglycaemia‐associated seizures in large‐for‐gestational‐age (LGA) full‐term neonates data from the Netherlands Perinatal Registry were analysed. Results: From 1997 to 2002 hypoglycaemia was recorded in 1513 of 9318 (16.2%) admitted LGA (defined as birthweight ≥97.7 percentile) full‐term neonates without maternal diabetes, of whom 20 (1.3%) had seizures. In six of these 20, hypoglycaemia was the single cause of seizures. Conclusion: Symptomatic hypoglycaemia occurs in healthy LGA full‐term neonates.