Archives of Disease in Childhood 1993; 68: 269-273
Hormonal and metabolic response to hypoglycaemia in small for gestational
age
infants
J M Hawdon, A Weddell, A Aynsley-Green, M P Ward Platt
Abstract Little is known of the ability of hypoglycaemic infants who are small for gestational age (SGA) to mount the coordinated hormonal and metabolic counterregulatory response that is seen in healthy older subjects during glycopenia. This response was studied in 22 SGA infants (birth weight
