[Glucose utilization in influenza of varying severity in intact or stressed animals]

Animals preexposed to stress developed manifest hyperglycemia in the first 2 days of influenza infection, which was replaced by prolonged hypoglycemia. The status of carbohydrate metabolism normalized no sooner than 3 to 4 weeks after the disease onset, although the acute phase of infection was over by the end of week 2. The changes were evident in the pattern of "sugar curve" after glucose loading. Glucose utilization failed to normalize even 2 h after the loading in animals with stress, influenza infection, or stress-associated complications of this infection.