Clinical decisions in patients with diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors. A statement of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine

Diabetic patients are nearly three times as likely to have depression as their nondiabetic counterparts. Patients with diabetes are already at risk for poor cardiovascular health. Using cross-sectional data from the translating research into action for diabetes (TRIAD) study, the authors tested the association of depression with cardiovascular risk factors in diabetic patients. Depression was measured using the patient health questionnaire (PHQ8). Patients who scored greater than 9 on the PHQ8 were classified as depressed and were compared with those who were not depressed(n=2,341). Depressed patients did not have significantly different blood pressure levels than those who were not depressed. However, those who were depressed had higher HbA1c levels than those who were not depressed(P<0.01)and higher BMIs than those who were not depressed(P<0.01). These results indicate that depressed diabetic patients are at greater risk of having poor control of cardiovascular risk factors and suggest that depression screening should be a standard practice among this patient group.

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Cardiovascular risk factors in patients discharged from departments of internal medicine—the Italian FADOI-2 study

European Journal of Internal Medicine ◽

10.1016/s0953-6205(01)00197-2 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 44-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Internal Medicine ◽

Risk Factors ◽

Cardiovascular Risk ◽

Cardiovascular Risk Factors

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Stress hyperglycemia is associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with diabetes and acute ischemic stroke

10.21203/rs.3.rs-54844/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Donghua Mi ◽

Zixiao Li ◽

Hongqiu Gu ◽

Yin Yang ◽

Chunjuan Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Ischemic Stroke ◽

Cardiovascular Risk ◽

Acute Ischemic Stroke ◽

Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽

Fasting Blood Glucose ◽

Hospital Death ◽

Diabetic Patients ◽

Stress Hyperglycemia ◽

Patients With Diabetes

Abstract Background and Objective: Stress hyperglycemia may occur in diabetic patients with acute severe cerebrovascular disease, but the results regarding its association with stroke outcomes are conflicting.Our study aimed to examine the association between stress-induced hyperglycemia and the occurrence of in-hospital death in patients with diabetes and acute ischemic stroke. Research Design and Methods: All data were from the Chinese Stroke Center Alliance (CSCA) database and were collected between 2016 and 2018 from > 300 centers across China. Patients’ demographics, clinical presentation, and laboratory data were extracted from the database. The primary endpoint was in-hospital death. The ratio of fasting blood glucose (FBG) to HbA1c was calculated, i.e., the stress-induced hyperglycemia ratio (SHR), to determine stress hyperglycemia following acute ischemic stroke. Results A total of 168,381 patients were included. The mean age was 66.2 ± 10.7, and 77,688 (43.0%) patients were female. The patients were divided into two groups: survivors (n = 167,499) and non-survivors (n = 882), as well as into four groups according to their SHR quartiles (n = 42,090 − 42,099/quartile). The frequencies of traditional cardiovascular risk factors increased with the SHR quartiles. There were 109 (0.26%), 142 (0.34%), 196 (0.47%), and 435 (1.03%) patients who died in the Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 quartiles, respectively. Compared with Q1 patients, the death risk was higher in Q4 patients (odds ratio (OR) = 4.02) (adjusted OR = 1.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.14–3.12, P = 0.026 after adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors). Conclusions The SHR may serve as an accessory parameter for the prognosis of patients with diabetes after acute ischemic stroke.Hyperglycemia in stroke patients with diabetes mellitus is associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death.

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