Muhammad Nazeer, Muhammad Naeem Afzal, Tabish Raza, Sidra Rasheed, Tariq Suleman, Muhammad Arif Nadeem.
Hyperglycemia and its Impact on Length of Stay in patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Esculapio J Services Inst Med Sci Jan ;16(03):96-101.

1. To determine the frequency of hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients with community acquired pneumonia 2. To compare mean hospital stay in patients with and without hyperglycemia admitted with CAP. Methods: It was a descriptive, case series done at Department of Medicine, Services Hospital, Lahore, in 2016. With non-probability, consecutive sampling technique a sample size of 150 cases is calculated with 95% confidence level, 8% margin of error and talking expected percentage of hyperglycemia as 38.2% in hospitalized patients with community acquired pneumonia. Results: Out of total 150 cases of CAP there were 85 (56.67%) males with mean age of 47.61+-14.66 years. Hyperglycemia was seen in 46 (30.67%) patients with CAP. There was equal distribution of hyperglycemia with respect to gender and age groups with p= 0.56 and 0.24 respectively. Hyperglycemia was more in those having temperature more than 101oF however this difference was not significant with p= 0.32. There was significant difference seen in terms of length of hospital stay,4.07+-1.51 days in hyperglycemic and 2.85+-1.31 days in normoglycemics with p= 0.001. The length of hospital stay was near significant high in males,4.31+-1.56 days (p= 0.08), while non -significant in females with p= 0.30. There was no significant difference in terms of age groups in cases with or without hyperglycemia with p= 0.56 and 0.78. The length of hospital stay was longer in those that had temperature more than 101oF,4.29+-1.26 days with hyperglycemia as compared to 2.88+-1.34 days in normoglycemics with p= 0.13. Conclusion: Community acquired pneumonia is an important infectious health concern. It is associated with high blood glucose and the length of hospital stay is found significantly high in cases of hyperglycemia. Key words: Community acquired pneumonia, Hyperglycemia, hospital stay

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