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friends and colleagues. While rigorous glycemic control is
important for all diabetic patients, it's especially important
after surgery. Better glycemic control after surgery reduces the
rate of bacterial infections; and high post-surgery BGs often
lead to more infections. Sherita Hill-Gordon, MD, and other
researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution studied the
records of 411 diabetic patients who had undergone coronary
bypass surgery a five-year period. Nearly 25% developed one or
more infections after surgery (with four cases ending in death).
Those with blood glucose levels of 206 mg/dL or lower were 17%
less likely to get an infection than those with blood sugars
between 230 and 252. Farah Parvez, MD, an epidemiologist in the
Division of Hospital Infection at