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Intensive insulin therapy-induced severe hypoglycemia does not affect long-term functional and cognitive outcome or health-related quality of life

Authors: RE Harmsen, JG Hofhuis, J Korevaar, F Van Braam Houckgeest, JP Van der Sluijs, MJ Schultz, PE Spronk

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2011

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Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) has been shown to reduce mortality in intensive care patients [1, 2]. A large study on IIT was stopped prematurely due to high incidence of severe hypoglycemia (SH) (blood glucose level (BGL) <40 mg/dl) [3]. It remains unclear, however, whether short episodes of IIT-associated SH are truly harmful [4]. We investigated long-term quality of life and functional and cognitive outcome in patients with and without IIT-associated SH. …

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Title: Intensive insulin therapy-induced severe hypoglycemia does not affect long-term functional and cognitive outcome or health-related quality of life
Authors: RE Harmsen
JG Hofhuis
J Korevaar
F Van Braam Houckgeest
JP Van der Sluijs
MJ Schultz
PE Spronk
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9819

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