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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) — Elevated blood sugar levels may
help predict death in pneumonia patients, researchers say.
The new study included nearly 6,900 patients, average age 60, with
community-acquired pneumonia who were admitted to hospitals and private
practices in Austria, Germany and Switzerland between 2003 and 2009.
Community-acquired pneumonia, one of the leading infectious diseases in
industrialized nations, is a major cause of illness and death, according
to background information in the study published online May 29 in the
journal BMJ.
Compared to patients with normal glucose levels at admission, those
with elevated levels had a higher risk of death within 28 and 90 days. The
higher a patient’s glucose levels, the greater the risk of death, the
investigators said in a journal news release.
The death rate within 90 days was 3 percent for patients without
diabetes and normal glucose levels, 10 percent for those without diabetes
but with elevated glucose levels, and 14 percent for patients with
diabetes, regardless of their glucose levels on admission, the study
revealed.
The findings show the necessity of glucose testing and close glucose
monitoring after patients with community-acquired pneumonia are discharged
from hospital, in order to diagnose diabetes and to prevent further
complications, concluded Dr. Philipp Lepper, of the University Hospital of
Saarland in Germany, and colleagues.
More information
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about pneumonia.
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