Hypoglycemic conditions in military personnel and volunteers of various ages

The ongoing war on the territory of Ukraine revealed a special group of pa-tients who may experience hypoglycemia — military personnel. Moreover, hypoglycemia can occur both in those who already had diabetes before, and in those who did not and did not get sick at the time of service in the Armed Forces. The article presents an analysis of the causes and features of this condition in servicemen. The aim is to investigate the causes of development, peculiarities of the course and methods of prevention of hypoglycemic states in military per-sonnel. Methods. To solve the task, full-text articles were searched and analyzed in the databases PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus. The search was conducted using the keywords “hypoglycemia”, “military personnel”, “soldiers” and “officers” and covered English and Ukrainian publications over the last 78 years (from March 1946 to June 2024).The results. The article provides data on the etiology, pathogenesis, clin-ical picture and treatment of hypoglycemia occurring in military personnel. The paper presents the main causes of the hypoglycemic syndrome and features of diagnosis and emergency care for patients with hypoglycemia of varying degrees of severity in cases with and without diabetes.Key words: hypoglycemia, military personnel, causes, diagnosis, emergency care, prevention