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Low blood sugar

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A low blood level of the sugar glucose.

Also called hypoglycemia.</P> Hypoglycemia is only significant when it is associated with symptoms.

It has many causes including drugs such as insulin, liver disease, surgical absence of the stomach, pre-diabetes, and rare tumors that release excess insulin.

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