glycemia

Low Blood Sugar Raises Risk of Death in ICU

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: September 19, 2012

Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Hypoglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU) appears to carry an increased mortality risk, researchers found.

In a post-hoc analysis of data from the NICE-SUGAR trial, both moderate and severe hypoglycemia were tied to a significantly higher risk of death even after adjustment for several confounders
New England Journal of Medicine ./.../