Correlation between admission hyperglycemia and postoperative pneumonia after hip fracture surgery: A propensity score-matched study
Yuanchao Luo, Xiaomin Ni, Wei Yao, Wei Wang, Yuhao Li, Qiaomei Lv, Wenbo Ding, Wanyun Tang · 2024
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Description
Yuanchao Luo and co-authors present a 2024 study on whether high blood sugar on arrival predicts pneumonia after hip fracture surgery. Hip fractures strike older adults, and pneumonia is a feared complication of the repair operation. The team mined records for 1,267 older patients admitted with hip fractures.
Patients were split by admission glucose into normal and high groups. Matching methods paired similar patients across the groups to strip out other differences. The analysis then estimated the pneumonia odds tied to high sugar alone. It also traced how risk climbs as glucose rises, dose by dose. Separate checks compared patients with and without diabetes. The work aims to flag a cheap, early warning sign that wards can act on.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuanchao Luo, Xiaomin Ni, Wei Yao, Wei Wang, Yuhao Li, Qiaomei Lv, Wenbo Ding, Wanyun Tang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |