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Comment & Response
December 7, 2020

Thresholds for Neonatal Hypoglycemia in Clinical Settings

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Child Health Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Roma, Italia
  • 2Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Child Health Area, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia
JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(3):322-323. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5083

To the Editor We read with great interest the Viewpoint by Dani and Corsini,1 in which they underline the limits of applicability of guidelines of pediatric scientific societies (the Pediatric Endocrine Society and American Academy of Pediatrics) about threshold values defining neonatal hypoglycemia. The authors state that the cutoff for detection of hypoglycaemia set at 45 mg/dL (blood sample; to convert glucose to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.0555), even after 24 hours of life, is reasonably safe for healthy term infants.

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