Contemporary Examples. 1  So Jeremiah Wright probably won't figure directly in this campaign. 2  One of them, Jeremiah McKay, 35, was pronounced dead at the hospital. 3  One problem: A poll says he's less popular than Jeremiah Wright.  He was there when he forbade his campaign to raise Reverend Jeremiah Wright as an issue.
Article Sections. Although hypothermia is most common in patients who are exposed to a cold environment, it can develop secondary to toxin exposure, metabolic derangements, infections, and dysfunction of the central nervous and endocrine systems.
Ketones can be used by the brain as an alternate fuel when glucose is scarce. A high level of ketones in the blood, ketosis, is thus a normal response to hypoglycemia in healthy people of all ages. The presence or absence of ketosis is therefore an important clue to the cause of hypoglycemia in an individual patient. Absence of ketosis (nonketotic hypoglycemia) most often indicates excessive insulin as the cause of the hypoglycemia. Less commonly, it may indicate a fatty acid oxidation disorder.