Title

Insulin Resistance in Critically Injured Adults: Contribution of Pneumonia, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Acuity.

Abstract

PURPOSE: Changes in insulin resistance (IR) cause stress-induced hyperglycemia after trauma, but the numerous factors involved in IR have not been delineated clearly. We hypothesized that a statistical model could help determine the relative contribution of different clinical co-variates to IR in critically injured patients.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively studied 726 critically injured patients managed with a computer-assisted glycemic protocol at an academic level I trauma center (639 ventilated controls without pneumonia (VWP) and 87 patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Linear regression using age, gender, body mass index (BMI), diabetes mellitus, pneumonia, and glycemic provision was used to estimate M, a marker of IR that incorporates both the serum blood glucose concentration (BG) and insulin dose.

RESULTS: Increasing M (p

CONCLUSIONS: Clinical factors can be used to construct a model of IR. Prospective validation might enable early detection and treatment of infection or other conditions associated with increased IR.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2015

Publication Title

Surgical infections

First Page

490

Last Page

497

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