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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
hospital patients. They called on doctors and hospitals to
aggressively treat high blood sugar.
Doctors have long known that both diabetic and non-diabetic ...