title: [A study of the influences of blood sugar levels on the prognosis of fulminating hepatitis patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the possible relationship between hypoglycemia and the prognosis of fulminating hepatitis patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fasting blood sugar levels of 322 fulminating hepatitis patients were retrospectively analyzed. The blood sugar levels and their clinical significance were appraised together.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all the samples, 173 were hypoglycemic (53.73%). The mortality rate of the hypoglycemia group was 48.55% (84/173), therefore the blood sugar level was lower and the mortality rate was higher.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A higher proportion of fulminating hepatitis patients have hypoglycemia. There is a close relationship between hypoglycemia and the prognosis of the fulminating hepatitis patients. Blood sugar level has an important clinical value in reflecting the degree of liver failure in early fulminating hepatitis patients.
authors.affiliation: The Infectious Diseases Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610061, China. flm@vip.163.com
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000097:blood* / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose