Perioperative Hyperglycemia and Risk of Adverse Events Among Patients With and Without Diabetes

Meera Kotagal, Rebecca Symons, Irl B. Hirsch, Guillermo E. Umpierrez, E. Patchen Dellinger, Ellen Farrokhi, David R. Flum

Annals of Surgery · 2014 · 419 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

For NDM patients, but not DM patients, the risk of adverse events was linked to hyperglycemia. Underlying this paradoxical effect may be the underuse of insulin, but also that hyperglycemia indicates higher levels of stress in NDM patients than in DM patients.

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