Hyperglycemia as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in elderly patients without diabetes mellitus admitted to a sub-intensive care unit

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1106-1110

  Sleiman, Intissar ^a   Morandi, Alessandro ^a   Sabatini, Tony ^a   Ranhoff, Anette ^b   Ricci, Antonella ^a   Rozzini, Renzo ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^c  

^a Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mortality; Stress hyperglycemia

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 44649124860     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01729.x     Document Type: Article

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