| The good and the bad of diabetes mellitus in the critically ill. | |
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PMID: 22189003 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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ABSTRACT: Diabetes mellitus is increasingly prevalent and associated with significant end organ damage that one may presume to impact upon critical illness. However, Siegelaar and colleagues present data that suggest, excepting those patients admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit, the presence of diabetes mellitus is not associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients. It is not possible to unpick how unmeasured parameters such as glycaemic control, the nature of whether type I or type II, or concomitant drug therapy confound the results. Nevertheless, the results are consistent with many risk-adjustment models used in the critically ill, and clinical practice that tolerates mild hyperglycaemia. Is it even possible that diabetes mellitus is protective? |
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Simon J Finney |
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Type: EDITORIAL Date: 2011-12-12 |
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Title: Critical care (London, England) Volume: 15 ISSN: 1466-609X ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-12-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9801902 Medline TA: Crit Care Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 1018 Citation Subset: - |
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Adult Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK. s.finney@rbht.nhs.uk. |
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