Stress Hyperglycemia Is Independently Associated with Persistent Organ Failure in Acute Pancreatitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Stress hyperglycemia is common in critical illness but it has not been clearly studied in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). This study aimed to investigate the specific blood glucose (BG) level that defines stress hyperglycemia and to determine the impact of stress hyperglycemia on clinical outcomes in AP patients.

Methods

AP patients admitted ≤ 48 h after abdominal pain onset were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were stratified by pre-existing diabetes and stress hyperglycemia was defined using stratified BG levels for non-diabetes and diabetes with clinical outcomes compared.

Results

There were 967 non-diabetic and 114 diabetic (10.5%) patients met the inclusion criteria and the clinical outcomes between these two groups were not significantl

SUBMITTER: Yang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9142444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature