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Article: Watching blood sugar cuts hospital deaths
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2003
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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