Diabetes research and clinical practice
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Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. · Jan 2014
Glucose as a risk predictor in acute medical emergency admissions.
The aims of this study were to examine the relationship between admission blood glucose and mortality in a large, unselected cohort of acutely ill medical patients and to assess the impact of diabetes on this relationship. ⋯ In patients without diabetes, an abnormal serum glucose is independently predictive of an increased mortality among the broad cohort of acute emergency medical patients. Similar disturbances of glucose homeostasis for patients with diabetes do not confer equivalent adverse prognostic implications.