Blood sugar goals

Tuesday 8th September 2009: HCFI: New Delhi: Correction and prevention of low blood sugar is beneficial to hospitalized patients, said Dr KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India and MTNL Perfect Health Mela.

       For most non-critically ill hospitalized patients with diabetes, one should have a target blood sugar of <180 mg/dL. In non-critically ill hospitalized patients, lower blood glucose levels may decrease the risk of poor clinical outcomes, but also increase the risk of hypoglycemia. A reasonable sugar goal to avoid low blood sugar is to achieve fasting blood glucose concentrations no lower than 90 to 100 mg/dL.