Quantitative Assessment of Blood Lactate in Shock: Measure of Hypoxia or Beneficial Energy Source

Table 2

Representative whole-body lactate and glucose turnover, oxidation, and interconversion. The values are the basal (resting, postprandial) values in normal human subjects.

	Lactate	Glucose
Blood Conc (mM)	0.7	4.9
Turnover (mmole/min/70 kg)	1.05	0.7
Clearance (L/min/70 kg)	1.5	0.142
Fraction oxidized to CO2	0.70	0.70
Fraction lactate converted to glucose	0.15
Volume of distribution (L/kg body wt.)	0.45	0.25
Turnover time (min)	21	122