High blood sugar increases hemorrhage risk in stroke patients: Study
Netherlands: High-serum blood sugar on admission increases risk of intracranial hemorrhage in stroke patients who underwent endovascular treatment, finds a recent study in the AHA journal Stroke. Also, it is associated with poor functional outcome.
Increased admission glucose is a predictor of poor outcome after stroke. Jonathan M. Coutinho, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues assessed the association between glucose concentrations and clinical outcomes in patients who underwent endovascular treatment.
For the purpose, the researchers selected consecutive adult patients from the MR CLEAN Registry. with a large vessel occlusion of the anterior circulation who underwent endovascular treatment and for whom admission glucose levels were available. The researchers assessed the association between admission glucose and the modified Rankin Scale score at 90 days, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage and successful reperfusion rates.
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