Review Article

Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Noncritical Patients

Randomized trials designed to determine optimum blood glucose (BG) levels among hospitalized noncritically ill patients are limited. In this group of patients, experts generally recommend premeal BG targets of 100 to 140 mg/dL, and random BG <180 mg/dL. Scheduled insulin is the mainstay therapy to control hyperglycemia in patients admitted…