title: Hypoglycemia in patients with renal failure.
abstract: Of a total of 1545 admissions of end stage renal failure (ESRD) patients, fifty-six (3.6%) were admitted during a ten-year period with hypoglycemia. Thirty-eight of them were diabetic while the others were non-diabetic patients. The most common etiology found to be drug-induced hypoglycemia in 26 (46%) patients. In 22 (39%) cases, sepsis was the contributing cause of hypoglycemia. Severe malnutrition caused 7% of hypoglycemic episodes. Of the patients, 18 (32%) with ESRD eventually died, none of them were from the drug induced group. However, mortality rate in the sepsis induced hypoglycemia group was 66%, and of the malnutrition group 17% of the deaths. Thus, hypoglycemia is frequent in ESRD patients, and is fatal if associated with either sepsis or malnutrition.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Haviv
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sharkia
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Safadi
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose