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A conference of major medical societies highlighted the high prevalence of inpatient diabetes and the lack of existing standards for glycemic control in hospitalized patients.
Highlights the high prevalence of diabetes and hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, particularly in the coronary care unit, and the need for standardized glycemic control guidelines.
Donald Bergman (New York, NY), President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, suggested the importance of endocrinologists beginning "to partner . . .for practical reasons," perhaps in this one fashion emulating trial lawyers and the National Rifle Association by finding strength in numbers!Nathaniel Clarke, on behalf of the American Diabetes Association, which cospons o r e d t h e m e e t i n g , s t r e s s e d t h e importance of developing common conclusions and guidelines.Representatives of the Endocrine Society, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists agreed on the importance of the topic.Alan Garber (Houston, TX), who moderated the conference, pointed out the frequency of diabetes among hospitalized persons and noted that at his institution, approximately one-third of persons in the coronary care unit have diabetes, with onethird of this group having glucose levels Ն200 mg/dl.There are, he noted, few existing standards for glycemic control of persons with diabetes in hospital.
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Zachary T. Bloomgarden (2004) studied Inpatient diabetes. A conference of major medical societies highlighted the high prevalence of inpatient diabetes and the lack of existing standards for glycemic control in hospitalized patients.
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