title: Causes of hypoglycaemia.
abstract: Hypoglycaemia represents a disturbance in carbohydrate metabolism that threatens to deprive the brain of its principal fuel, and its physiological consequences are mediated almost exclusively by the CNS. Although some find the distinction pedantic, it is useful to reserve the term hypoglycaemia for this biochemical state, and neuroglycopenia for the clinical syndrome that results.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007328:Insulin / Q000009:adverse effects; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000150:complications; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin