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Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia) (cont.)

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Author: Robert Ferry Jr., MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: Usha Sriram, MBBS, Consulting Staff, Department of Endocrinology, Rush Medical College.

Coauthor(s): Usamah Mossallam, MD, Senior Consulting Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital.

Editors: Arthur B Chausmer, MD, PhD, FACP, FACE, FACN, CNS, Affiliate Research Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, School of Computational Sciences; Principal, C/A Informatics, LLC; Mary L Windle, Pharm D, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine.com, Inc; George T Griffing, MD, Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, St Louis University.

Last Editorial Review: 2/6/2009

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