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From: Brain metabolism is significantly impaired at blood glucose below 6 mM and brain glucose below 1 mM in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

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Changes in brain glucose determined by microdialysis (grey box plots) and calculated brain-to-blood glucose ratio (white box plots) in pre-defined blood glucose clusters, ranging from less than 5 mM to more than 9 mM in 1 mM buckets. At arterial blood glucose levels exceeding 6 mM brain glucose was significantly increased. With increasing arterial blood glucose and brain glucose levels calculated brain-to-blood glucose ratio was significantly decreased, reflecting reduced cerebral uptake. Increases across the pre-defined blood glucose clusters compared with low arterial blood glucose levels were significant (*P < 0.001; analysis of variance on ranks, post hoc Dunn's test).

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