Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperglycemia (irrespective of the presence of diabetes) has been associated with worse outcomes in hospitalized patients with a variety of diseases, namely critical illness. It is been recently proposed that a relative hyperglycemia – Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio (SHR) – might be even better associated with disease outcomes. We studied how SHR correlated with various morbidity parameters in hospitalized patients due to acute pyelonephritis.<p class="...