Admission hyperglycemia and outcome in ICU patients with sepsis

Stress hyperglycemia is a very common feature in the intensive care (ICU) setting and it is related to multiple causes that include inflammatory and neuro-endocrine derangements in critically ill patients, which lead to insulin resistance and high hepatic glucose output (1). The target for glucose management in this population and its relationship with the patients’ outcome is not clear, and results from literature are contrasting