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. 2021 Dec 2;13(1):145–159. doi: 10.1007/s13300-021-01183-y

Table 2.

In-hospital event rates according to the presence of diabetes and stress-induced hyperglycemia

Event number (percent) Grouped by hyperglycemic state Grouped by stress hyperglycemia
No diabetes (n = 206) Diabetes by history (n = 154) Newly diagnosed diabetes (n = 18) P Value SHR < 1.2 (n = 132) SHR ≥ 1.2 (n = 246) P value
All events 56 (27.2) 44 (28.6) 5 (27.8) 0.959 23 (17.3) 82 (33.5) 0.007
In-hospital death 30 (14.6) 13 (8.4) 1 (5.6) 0.143 7 (5.3) 37 (15.0) 0.005
Time to death (days)* 7 [10] 9 [7] 33 [−] 0.186 7 [7] 8 [9] 0.797
Non-infectious events
 Hypoglycemia 4 (1.9) 16 (10.4) 1 (5.6) 0.002 9 (6.8) 12 (4.9) 0.432
 Acute myocardial infarction 1 (0.5) 1 (0.7) 0 − 0.929 1 (0.8) 1 (0.4) 0.653
 Heart failure 36 (17.6) 40 (26.1) 3 (16.7) 0.128 25 (19.1) 54 (22.0) 0.509
 Cerebrovascular events 1 (0.5) 1 (0.7) 0 − 0.929 2 (1.5) 0 − 0.053
 Arrythmias 6 (2.9) 4 (2.6) 1 (5.6) 0.779 3 (2.3) 8 (3.3) 0.589
 Progressive renal disease# 9 (4.4) 7 (4.5) 2 (11.2) 0.430 4 (3.0) 14 (5.7) 0.247
 Others 26 (12.6) 27 (17.5) 4 (22.2) 0.299 16 (12.1) 41 (16.7) 0.292
Systemic infections° 32/138 (23.2) 27/111 (24.3) 3/11 (27.3) 0.944 15/100 (15.0) 47/160 (29.4) 0.011

Note that more than one event might occur in individual patients

Data are presented as number of cases (%)

*Median [interquartile range]

°In patients without infection at admission (total number, 260)

#Renal function deterioration by ≥ 1 CKD stage