Inpatient hypoglycaemia in older people is associated with a doubling in the increased length of stay compared with the younger population
| Autor: | G. D. Tan, Jim Davies, Zuzana Moysova, Yue Ruan, Alistair Lumb, Rustam Rea |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Population 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Hypoglycemia 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Age groups Interquartile range Diabetes mellitus Diabetes Mellitus Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Aged education.field_of_study Inpatients business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine Length of Stay medicine.disease Hospitalization Hospital admission Geriatrics and Gerontology business Older people |
| Zdroj: | Age and ageing. 50(2) |
| ISSN: | 1468-2834 |
| Popis: | Background Hypoglycaemia during hospital admission is associated with poor outcomes including increased length of stay. In this study, we compared the incidence of inpatient hypoglycaemia and length of stays among people of three age groups: ≤65 years, 65–80 years and >80 years old. Methods The study was conducted using a 4-year electronic patient record dataset from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The dataset contains hospital admission data for people with diabetes. We analysed the blood glucose (BG) measurements and identified all level 1 (BG Results We analysed data obtained from 17,658 inpatients with diabetes who underwent 32,758 hospital admissions. The length of stays for admissions with no hypoglycaemia were 3[1,6], 3[1,8] and 4[2,11] (median[interquartile range]) days for age groups ≤65 years, 65–80 years and >80 years, respectively. These were statistically significantly lower (P Conclusions In all age groups, admissions with either level 1 or level 2 hypoglycaemia were associated with an increased length of stay. However, in both the older groups, the length of stay increments were much higher (double) than the younger counterparts. The clinical consequences of hypoglycaemia were more severe in older people compared with the younger population. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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