Hyperglycemia in acutely ill emergency patients — Cause or effect?
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Hyperglycemia in acutely ill patients.
MOST PHYSICIANS WILL ENcounter acutely ill patients who develop hyperglycemia. A third of all persons admitted to an urban general hospital had fasting glucose levels exceeding 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L), or 2 or more random glucose levels exceeding 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L); a third of those patients with hyperglycemia did not have a prior diagnosis of diabetes. Physicians often perceive hyperglycemia...
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عنوان ژورنال: CJEM
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1481-8035,1481-8043
DOI: 10.1017/s1481803500014007