Clinical Study

Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Table 1

Demographic characteristics.

Age (months)Euglycaemia (%)Dysglycaemia (%)
AllHypoglycemiaHyperglycemia

3.0–23.9101 (47)101 (47)17 (61)84 (45)
24.0–59.958 (27)58 (27)5 (18)53 (28)
60.0–144.056 (26)56 (26)6 (21)50 (27)

All ages21521528187

Data are given as (% of the patients with euglycemia or with dysglycemia (all, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia)).