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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Emerg Care. 2010 Sep;26(9):626–632. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181ef0488

TABLE 2.

Diagnoses, Glucose-Influencing Medical Therapy, and Mortality

Diagnosis Frequency,
n (% of Total Cohort)
Glucose-Influencing Therapy,
n (% of Diagnostic Group)
Disease-Specific Mortality,
n (% of Diagnostic Group)
Respiratory illness 35 (49) 31 (89) 2 (6)
  Asthma 22 (31) 22 (100) 1 (5)
  Pneumonia 5 (7) 3 (60) 1 (20)
  Bronchiolitis 1 (1) 1 (100) 0 (0)
  Other respiratory illness 7 (10) 5 (71) 0 (0)
Cardiovascular 4 (5) 4 (100) 4 (100)
Gastrointestinal 3 (4) 1 (33) 1 (33)
Dehydration 2 (3) 1 (50) 0
Infectious 3 (4) 2 (67) 0
Oncologic 2 (3) 2 (100) 0
Neurologic 7 (10) 2 (29) 3 (43)
  Seizure 5 (7) 1 (20) 1 (20)
  Other neurologic illness 2 (3) 1 (50) 1 (50)
Trauma 12 (17) 3 (25) 6 (50)
Toxic exposure 4 (5) 1 (25) 0 (0)
Total 72 (100) 47 (65) 16 (22)