Hypoglycemia associated with hospitalization and adverse events in older people : Population-based cohort study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3585-3590

  Majumdar, Sumit R ^a   Hemmelgarn, Brenda R ^b   Lin, Meng ^a   McBrien, Kerry ^b   Manns, Braden J ^b   Tonelli, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; VERY ELDERLY; ADULT; AGE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK;

EID: 84891869813     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-0523     Document Type: Article

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