Diabetic patients with severe sepsis admitted to intensive care unit do not fare worse than non-diabetic patients: a nationwide population-based cohort study.

BACKGROUND: We sought to examine whether type 2 diabetes increases the risk of acute organ dysfunction and of hospital mortality following severe sepsis that requires admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: Nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study of 16,497 subjects with se...

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Main Authors: Cheng-Wei Chang, Victor C Kok, Ta-Chien Tseng, Jorng-Tzong Horng, Chun-Eng Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3517561?pdf=render