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- Title
Relationship between spontaneous and iatrogenic hypoglycemia and mortality in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction.
- Authors
Kosiborod, Mikhail; Inzucchi, Silvio E; Goyal, Abhinav; Krumholz, Harlan M; Masoudi, Frederick A; Xiao, Lan; Spertus, John A
- Abstract
While glucose control is recommended by professional societies for patients with hyperglycemia hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), enthusiasm for glucose lowering is tempered, in part, by concerns of inducing hypoglycemia. Yet, whether episodic hypoglycemia that occurs as a result of glucose-lowering therapy is harmful in patients with AMI is unknown.
- Publication
JAMA, 2009, Vol 301, Issue 15, p1556
- ISSN
1538-3598
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2009.496