Insulin-treated diabetes is not associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients

Jean Louis Vincent; Jean‐Charles Preiser; Charles L. Sprung; Rui P. Moreno; Yasser Sakr

doi:10.1186/cc8866

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Even though patients with a history of insulin-treated diabetes are more severely ill and more likely to have renal failure, insulin-treated diabetes is not associated with increased mortality in ICU patients.

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