Managing post stroke hyperglycaemia: moderate glycaemic control is better? An update

• Main Authors: Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa, Hashim, Hasnur Zaman, Che Abdullah, Shahrin Tarmizi, Fan, Kee Hoo, Basri, Hamidon
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund 2014
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37841/2/Hashim_13082014_proof.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37841/5/37841_Managing%20post%20stroke%20hyperglycaemia_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37841/6/37841_Managing%20post%20stroke%20hyperglycaemia_WoS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37841/; http://www.excli.de/volume13.php

Post stroke hyperglycaemia (PSH) is prevalent in (AIS) acute ischaemic stroke patients and it has been associated with a dismal outcome of death and disability. Insulin has been proven to attenuate glucose effectively in stroke patients, thus many trials over the years had studied the efficacy of in...