Table 2

Incidence of healthy term infants with a blood glucose concentration below certain cut offs in different studies

Reference	Glucose concentration (mmol/l)	Incidence (%)	Hours of study after delivery	Study design
Srinivasanet al ⁷ ^2-150	<2.0 (plasma)	13	3	Longitudinal
Heck & Erenberg⁸ ^2-151	<1.8 (plasma)	8	48	Longitudinal
Hawdon et al ⁹ ^2-150	<2.6 (blood)	12	96	Cross sectional
Cole & Peevy10 ^2-150	<2.2 (blood)	40	2
Tanzeret al 11 ^2-151	<1.8 (blood)	34	48	Longitudinal
Present study^2-150		<1.8 (blood)	0.4	96	Cross sectional
		<2.2 (blood)	4
		<2.6 (blood)	14

↵2-150 Studies of healthy term infants of appropriate size for gestational age.
↵2-151 Studies including healthy term infants of appropriate, small, or large size for gestational age.