title: Epidemiological features of stress hyperglycemia in elderly at emergency department.
abstract: Background : Stress hyperglycemia among patients having an acute pathology is frequently described in recent studies.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The objectives of this work were to describe epidemiologic features of elderly patients hospitalized in the emergency department and having a hyperglycemia due to stress.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective chart review identified patients older than 65 years with obtained serum glucose levels. Patients with diabetes were excluded. Two levels of serum glucose were considered (>6,9 mmol/l and ≤ 6,9 mmol/l).
  
  
  RESULTS
  We included 165.  There were 94 patients with high level of serum glucose level (56,9%). Multivariate analysis found that only cardio-vascular pathologies were more predictive of having stress hyperglycemia (p=0,014, odds-ratio=2,8, IC=1,2-6,4). There were no correlation between serum glucose levels and mortality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stress hyperglycemia is a fairly common disorder but underestimated in emergency department. Its impact on the prognosis of elderly patients remains to be studied.
authors.forename: Olfa
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Chakroun-Walha
authors.forename: Imen
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rejeb
authors.forename: Mariem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boujelben
authors.forename: Anis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaari
authors.forename: Hichem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ksibi
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kammoun
authors.forename: Adel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaari
authors.forename: Mounir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bouaziz
authors.forename: Noureddine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rekik
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015897:Comorbidity; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology