Diabetes 'complicates recovery'
People with diabetes are more likely to spend longer in intensive care and pick up an infection after an accident than those without, a US study suggests. Researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine looked at nearly 26,000 patients who were hospitalised after trauma injuries between 1984 and 2002. Those with diabetes were nearly twice as likely to pick up an infection and spent two days longer on a ventilator. But they were not more likely to die, the Archives of Surgery study found.
17 Jul 2007