Is Diabetes Mellitus associated with increased postoperative complications, hospitalization, and death in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery?
Diabetes Mellitus is a significant risk factor for adverse outcomes following non-cardiac surgery, highlighting the critical need for preoperative risk assessment.
DM is a risk factor for any postoperative complications, hospitalization and death after non-cardiac surgery. These findings underscore the importance of preoperative risk factor assessment of DM for the safe outcome of surgical patients.
Zhang et al. (Thu,) studied this question.