Comment on article: “Association between stress hyperglycemia and in-hospital complications”

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Regarding the article by Galindo-Garcia et al. entitled "Partnership between stress hyperglycemia and hospital complications," the authors mention that "stress hyperglycemia is any elevation of serum glucose at the time of hospital admission in patients with or without diabetes mellitus previously diagnosed". However, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), the Endocrine Society, the American Heart Association (AHA), the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), the European Society of Endocrinology and the Society of Hospital Medicine well as by other opinion leader researchers on the subject, the term "stress hyperglycemia" refers to a transient hyperglycemia during the course of an acute illness and is restricted to patients without evidence of diabetes mellitus.