ABSTRACT
Background: Stress hyperglycemia among patients having an acute pathology is frequently described in recent studies
Aims: The objectives of this work were to describe epidemiologic features of elderly patients hospitalized in the emergency department and having a hyperglycemia due to stress
Methods: A retrospective chart review identified patients older than 65 years with obtained serum glucose levels. Patients with diabetes were excluded. Two levels of serum glucose were considered [>6,9 mmol/l and
Results: We included 165. There were 94 patients with high level of serum glucose level [56,9%]. Multivariate analysis found that only cardio-vascular pathologies were more predictive of having stress hyperglycemia [p=0,014, odds-ratio=2,8, IC=1,2-6,4]. There were no correlation between serum glucose levels and mortality
Conclusion: Stress hyperglycemia is a fairly common disorder but underestimated in emergency department. Its impact on the prognosis of elderly patients remains to be studied