Reimar W Thomsen

..This paper aims to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the epidemiological trends and public health implications of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa...

..We examined the association between quality of care and 30 day mortality in a nationwide cohort of patients hospitalized with hip fracture...

..There are limited data describing how pre-existing heart failure affects mortality following pneumonia...

..Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is a rare, life-threatening disease with an increasing rate of incidence. Case reports from East Asia suggest that diabetes mellitus is an important risk factor, but formal evidence is limited...

..We examined whether preadmission statin use decreased risk of death, bacteremia, and pulmonary complications after pneumonia...

..To the authors' knowledge, little information is available regarding the incidence of cholecystitis among patients with cancer...

..Splenectomy has been associated with increased risk for infection...

..We also examined the negative predictive value of acute pneumonia or respiratory failure discharge diagnoses for absence of underlying COPD...

..Diabetes has been associated with bacteraemia due to haemolytic streptococci but epidemiological evidence is limited...

..To examine whether diabetes is a risk factor for hospitalization with pneumonia and to assess the impact of A1C level on such risk...

..We sought to examine whether type 2 diabetes increases risk of death and complications following pneumonia and to assess the prognostic value of admission hyperglycemia...

..Persons with diabetes had a substantially increased risk for enterobacterial bacteremia (adjusted odds ratio, 2.9; 95% confidence interval, 2.4-3.4). Among patients with bacteremia, diabetes was also associated with a poorer prognosis...

..To examine the association between diabetes, glycemic control, and risk of tuberculosis (TB)...

..We examined whether statin use was associated with risk of death in general intensive care unit (ICU) patients...

..We aimed to examine the association of age with short-term mortality after perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer and to determine the impact of comorbidity on this association...

..Tramadol may mask symptoms of peptic ulcer complications, yet tramadol's effect on peptic ulcer prognosis is unknown...

..We examined whether diabetes increased 30-day mortality among Danish patients hospitalized with bleeding or perforated peptic ulcers...

..We examined the association between COPD and 30-day mortality following bleeding and perforation of a peptic ulcer...

..7 (1.3-2.3) and 1.6 (1.2-2.3). CONCLUSION: Current use of NSAIDs, including COX-2 inhibitors, is associated with a poor prognosis for patients hospitalized with peptic ulcer perforation...

..Increased mortality was most pronounced when glucocorticoids were used in high doses or were combined with other ulcer-related drugs...

..Assessing the prevalence of, and predictors for, pathologically-confirmed inflammation of the aorta in Denmark, using a nationwide population-based study design...

..We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study in Denmark to examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and statin use...

..However, increased mortality was found in patients who started SSRI therapy, particularly among those older than 80 years. We can only speculate on whether this finding is due to pharmacological action or confounding factors...

..We conducted a population-based cohort study to assess the impact of diabetes on mortality within 90 days in patients with pneumococcal bacteremia...

..Few population-based data are available regarding nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary disease epidemiology and prognosis...

..Diabetes is a risk factor for urinary tract infections (UTI), but the impact of insulin treatment and glycaemic control on UTI risk is not clear...

..The cardiovascular safety, including risk of myocardial infarction (MI), of individual sulfonylureas (SUs) may differ. It remains uncertain whether treatment with individual SUs influences prognosis following MI...

..We examined the association between AG combination therapy and mortality and increase in serum creatinine in adult patients with bacteraemia given appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy...

..Statin use was, however, associated with a substantially decreased mortality between 31 and 180 days after bacteremia...

..3 (95% CI, 1.8-3.0). In summary, primary chronic ITP was associated with substantially increased long-term risk of infections, hemorrhagic episodes requiring hospitalization, hematologic malignancies, and mortality...

..We therefore examined the association between the age of transfused RBCs and development of severe postoperative infection following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a large population-based cohort study...

..This association was limited to distal GC, while serologically defined SCAG was strongly associated with cardia GC, thus suggesting a divergent risk pattern for these 2 sites...