Jeffrey R. Kaiser, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and colleagues found that transient hypoglycemia (<35 mg/dL) in a newborn was associated with the decreased likelihood of proficiency on literary achievement testing (adjusted odds ratio 0.49, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.83) and mathematics achievement testing (adjusted OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.29 to 0.82) as a fourth grader.
Even when employing higher cutoffs for transient hypoglycemia (<40 mg/dL and <45 mg/dL), similar results were observed for deficiencies in literary scores (OR 0.43, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.67 and OR 0.62, 9% CI 0.45 to 0.85, respectively) and math scores (OR 0.51, CI 0.29 to 0.82 and OR 0.78, CI 0.57 to 1.08, respectively), they wrote inJAMA Pediatrics.
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