Admission Hypoglycemia and Increased Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Gamble, John Michael ^a   Eurich, Dean T ^a   Marrie, Thomas J ^b   Majumdar, Sumit R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Community acquired pneumonia; Mortality hypoglycemia

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77952978579     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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