Table 4.

Selected indexes of diabetes severity and distribution of the predictive score in the testing population ^*

	Fasting plasma glucose at discharge
	< 140	≥ 140	B	SE(B)	OR**	95% CI
Plasma glucose at the admission (mg/dl)
<143	75 (55.6)	28 (21.7)			1.0
143–218	41 (30.4)	48 (37.2)	1.16	0.31	3.19	1.73–5.89
>218	19 (14.1)	53 (41.1)	2.05	0.35	7.76	3.89–15.5
Insulin or combined hypoglycemic therapy prior to admission	56 (41.5)	79 (61.2)	0.85	0.26	2.35	1.42–3.88
Score
0	23 (17.0)	4 (3.1)			1.0
1	14 (10.4)	5 (3.9)	0.73	0.76	2.08	0.46–9.28
2	23 (17.0)	7 (5.4)	0.65	0.70	1.91	0.48–7.55
3	16 (11.9)	8 (6.2)	1.19	0.70	3.29	0.83–13.0
4	5 (3.7)	7 (5.4)	2.13	0.81	8.45	1.74–41.1
5	30 (22.2)	33 (25.6)	1.92	0.60	6.81	2.09–22.2
6	3 (2.2)	7 (5.4)	2.80	0.90	16.5	2.84–95.6
7	9 (6.7)	25 (19.4)	2.92	0.68	18.5	4.92–69.9
≥ 8	12 (8.9)	33 (25.6)	2.93	0.65	18.8	5.26–67.2

^* See the text, section "Results", for the method of computing the predictive score. ^**Adjusted for age and gender. Data in columns 2 and 3 are numbers (percentage).