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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8025
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-7-29
pubmed:abstractText
10 healthy young subjects drank, on three separate occasions, the equivalent of three gin and tonics containing 50 g alcohol and 60 g sucrose, gin and "Slimline" tonic containing 50 g alcohol and 0.5 g sucrose, or tonic alone containing 60 g sucrose. Their behaviour, symptoms, blood-glucose, and plasma-insulin were monitored for 5 hours. Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels. Gin and tonic provoked a greater insulinaemia and more profound reactive hypoglycaemic response than tonic alone, and in 3 of the subjects this was associated with the appearance of neuroglycopenic symptoms. Alcohol-mediated reactive hypoglycaemia may contribute significantly to motor-car accidents in the late afternoon at a time when blood-alcohol levels have fallen below the legal limit.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0140-6736
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1286-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1977
pubmed:articleTitle
Lunchtime gin and tonic a cause of reactive hypoglycaemia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article