Q. How common is abnormal glucose and diabetes in acute stroke patients? Answer Yes or No to each of the questions below:
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Q. How common is abnormal glucose and diabetes in acute stroke patients? Answer each of the Yes/No questions below. Correct answers in bold:
1. Hyperglycaemia (defined as random plasma glucose concentration of >11.0mmol/l or fasting plasma glucose concentration of >7.0mmol/l or an HbA1c of 6.5% or above) is present in about 10% of acute stroke patients?
No: Correct, it is about 43%.
Yes: Wrong, it is about 43%.
2. Of those acute stroke patients presenting with hyperglycaemia, about 8%-20% already have diabetes?
Yes: Correct, about 8%-20% of these patients have known Diabetes.
No: Wrong, about 8%-20% of these patients have known Diabetes.
3. Of those acute stroke patients presenting with hyperglycaemia, about 50% are new diabetics?
No: Correct, about 16%-24% have previously unrecognised diabetes.
Yes: Wrong, about 16%-24% have previously unrecognised diabetes.
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