Mild hypoglycemia is independently associated with increased risk of mortality in patients with sepsis: a 3-year retrospective observational study

Table 3 Comparisons of time to events and time to hospital deaths among three hypoglycemic groups

Variable	Spontaneous hypoglycemia (patient n= 32)	Iatrogenic hypoglycemia (patient n= 41)	Both hypoglycemias (patient n= 7)	P value^a
Total number of hypoglycemic events	61	81	33^b
Hospital deaths	22 (68.8%)	28 (68.3%)	6 (85.7%)	0.967^c
Time from ICU admission to first hypoglycemic event (days)	3.0 (1.0 to 5.8)	3.0 (1.0 to 5.5)	1.0 (6 hours to 4.0)	0.490^d
Time from first hypoglycemic event to hospital death (days)	3.0 (1.0 to 12.0)	5.0 (1.0 to 11.5)	13.5 (6.0 to 26.5)	0.898^d

^aComparisons between two groups (that is, spontaneous hypoglycemia vs. iatrogenic hypoglycemia). ^bTen hypoglycemic events occurred spontaneously. ^cChi-squared test. ^dMann-Whitney U test.

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