Hypoglycemia in patients presenting with Liver Cirrhosis

Background: due to liver cirrhosis,gastrointestinal functions of human body also disturbed and leads to the occurrence of other comorbidities. hypoglycemia is one of the rising complications of cirrhosis. so we planned this study to find the variation in blood sugar level in patents of cirrhosis. aim: to assess the frequency of hypoglycemia in patients with liver cirrhosis study design: cross sectional study. setting & duration: department of medicine,mayo hospital,lahore,six months duration methodology: eighty four cases of cirrhosis were selected through opd. blood sample wasobtained and bsr was tested and hypoglycemia was noted. spss v.20 was used to analyses the data. frequency and percentage was calculated for hypoglycemia. results: the mean age of the patients was 44.39±17.06years. there were 61.9% males and 38.1% females. mean duration of cirrhosis was 2.61±1.47 years. child-pugh grade a was noticed in 34.5%,grade b in 29.8% and grade c in 35.7%. the mean blood sugar level 88.50±37.68mg/dl. hypoglycemia was present in 51.2% cases. hyponatremia was present in 51.7% child-pugh class a,56% in child-pugh class b and 46.7% in child-pugh class c. the difference was insignificant (p>0.05). conclusion: the frequency of hypoglycemia in cirrhotic patients was high and no negligible.