In a healthy person, the kidney filters nearly 200 g of glucose per day, almost all of which is
reabsorbed. The primary transporter responsible for renal glucose reabsorption is sodium …

Background & aims Diabetes is a significant risk factor for surgical complications and also
increases the prevalence of comorbidities, thereby increasing surgical risk. The aim of this …

OBJECTIVE Hemoglobin A1c (A1C) is used in assessment of patients for elective surgeries
because hyperglycemia increases risk of adverse events. However, the interplay of A1C …

Objectives: This study sought to investigate in the general heart failure (HF) population,
whether the associations between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and risk of hospitalization and …

Background Historically, impaired glucose metabolism has been associated with early and
late complicated clinical outcomes after cardiac surgery; however, such a condition is not …

Diabetes mellitus is increasingly becoming an older person disease due to the increased
survival and aging of the population. Previous studies which showed benefits of tight …

The prevalence of diabetes is increasing especially in older age due to increased life
expectancy. In old age, diabetes is associated with high comorbidity burden and increased …

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate post–percutaneous coronary intervention
(PCI) outcomes in relation to pre-procedural glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels from a …

Glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) has been recognized as a predictor of cardiovascular
events. However, the relationship between HbA1c and coronary artery disease (CAD) in the …

Background The current Lee's Revised cardiac risk index (RCRI) was created in 1999.
Validation studies have found RCRI to be only moderately discriminant. The “Diabetes …