Insulin for glycaemic control in acute ischaemic stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with hyperglycaemia concomitant with an acute stroke have greater mortality, stroke severity, and functional impairment when compared with those with normoglycaemia at stroke presentation. This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2011.

Objectives

To determine whether intensively monitoring insulin therapy aimed at maintaining serum glucose within a specific normal range (4 to 7.5 mmol/L) in the first 24 hours of acute ischaemic stroke influences outcome.

Search methods

We searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register (September 2013), CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 8), MEDLINE (1950 to September 2013), EMBASE (1980 to September 2013), CINAHL (1982 to September 2013), Science Citation Index (1900 to September 2013), an

SUBMITTER: Bellolio MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10770823 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature