Article: Watching blood sugar cuts hospital deaths

Watching blood sugar cuts hospital deaths

By LARRY LIPMAN Cox News Service

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Washington -- Thousands of hospital patients could be spared medical complications, disability and death if high blood sugar levels were treated upon their admission, medical experts said Tuesday.

At a conference hosted this week by the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, specialists concluded that there is a direct relationship between blood sugar levels and health outcomes for

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