IDF: Hypoglycemia Linked to Mortality in Hospitalized Pneumonia ...

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 10/20/2009 - 11:20

MONTREAL (MedPage Today) -- Patients with hypoglycemia at the time of hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia have an increased risk of death compared with patients with normoglycemia, researchers here reported.


 

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