Managing hyperglycaemia

Managing hyperglycaemia in hospitalized patients

Vol.2, No.2, August 2012 Hyperglycaemia is a common, serious and costly health care problem in hospitalized patients. There is substantial observational evidence linking hyperglycaemia in critically ill patients (with and without diabetes) to higher rates of hospital complications, longer hospital stay, higher health care resource utilization, and greater hospital mortality (1,2). Although seve...

Current, new, and emerging therapies for managing hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes.

Managing post stroke hyperglycaemia: moderate glycaemic control is better? An update

Post stroke hyperglycaemia (PSH) is prevalent in acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) patients and it has been associated with a dismal outcome of death and disability. Insulin has been proven to attenuate glucose effectively in stroke patients, thus many trials over the years had studied the efficacy of intensive treatment aiming at normalization of blood sugar level in order to improve the bleak outc...

Hyperglycaemia and pulmonary infection.

Pathophysiological stress from acute illness causes metabolic disturbance, including altered hepatic glucose metabolism, increased peripheral insulin resistance and hyperglycaemia. Acute hyperglycaemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients in intensive care units and patients with acute respiratory disease. The present review will consider mechanisms underlying this a...

Hyperglycaemia and cancer risk

A recent Swedish prospective study on hyperglycaemia and cancer risk (1) showed an association with total cancer risk in women, and in women and men combined, for several cancer sites. The cancer incidence was compared with both fasting glucose and glucose 2 h after a 75 g glucose load. For women the relative total cancer risks for the top versus bottom quartiles were in the range of 1.3, i.e. ...