High Blood Sugar Increases Chances of Clotting

October 18th, 2006

HealthDay reports Dr. Boris Mraovic saying “The take-home message is that all patients should get their bood sugar under control before undergoing elective surgery.”

Why? It’s the clots. High blood sugar, like that of a type 2 diabetic, is associated with a high incidence of pulmonary embolism. The doctors found that these clots formed in over 10% of their patients who were diabetic, but only 1.7% of others.

Get the blood sugar under control before you have that knee worked on.

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