Muhammad Abbas Khan, Muhammad Sadiq, Umair Ali, Sifat Ullah, Syed Aman Shah, Hafiz Muhammad Jamil Gul.
Frequency of stress hyperglycemia among patients with acute left ventricular failure.
Pak Heart J Jan ;52(3):250-3.

Objective: To determine the frequency of stress hyperglycemia among patients with acute left ventricular failure. Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the in the department of cardiology, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from September 2013-August 2014. Patients presenting acute left ventricular failure were included in the study in a consecutive manner and subjected to measurement of blood glucose level and observations were recorded data was analysis on SPSS 22 with p<0.05 taken as significant. Results: In this study 171 patients were included, 60.2% were male. Mean age of the patients was 58.7 +- 7.9 years. Most of the patients (71.4%) were between 50.01 to 70.00 years. Of the whole sample, 46.8% were hypertensive, 39.8% had history of coronary artery disease and 53.8% were having BMI beyond 22.9.Mean admission plasma glucose level of the sample was 133+/-24.1mg/dl with 33.3% patients having stress hyperglycemia. Conclusion: Stress hyperglycemia is frequent occurrence in our population with left ventricular failure.

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