Infection, absent tachycardia, cancer history, and severe coma are independent mortality predictors in geriatric patients with hyperglycemic crises

Diabetes Care. 2013 Sep;36(9):e151-2. doi: 10.2337/dc12-2334.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hyperglycemia / epidemiology
  • Hyperglycemia / mortality*
  • Male
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Tachycardia / epidemiology*