Diabetes and sepsis outcomes--it is not all bad news.
Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of developing infections and sepsis. In this issue of Critical Care Esper and colleagues report on a large survey, involving 12.5 million sepsis cases, that examined the impact of pre-existing diabetes on organ dysfunction during sepsis. Their main conclusion was that diabetes patients, relative to non-diabetics, were less likely to develop respiratory failure and more likely to develop renal failure during the course of sepsis.
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Sachin
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The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. yendes@upmc.edu
van der Poll
Tom
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D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome