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Abnormal glucose tolerance: a predictor of 30-day mortality in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis.

S S Hagel, T T Bruns, A A Herrmann, A A Stallmach, and C C Schmidt

Z Gastroenterol 49(3):331-4 (2011) PMID 21391163

In liver cirrhosis an abnormal glucose tolerance correlates with a poor long-term prognosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a disturbed glucose metabolism predicts the short-term prognosis in hospitalized patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis.

DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245933
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