Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Table 4

Complications among the participants.

	All	Euglycaemia (%)	Dysglycaemia (%)
			All	Hypoglycemia	Hyperglycemia
DIC	9 (2)	1 (0.5)	8 (4)^#	3 (11)	5 (3)
ARF	17 (4)	2 (1)	15 (7)^#	4 (14)	11 (6)
Shock	39 (9)	4 (2)	35 (16)^#	6 (21)	29 (16)
Hepatitis	8 (2)	2 (1)	6 (2)	0 (0)	6 (3)
IVH	28 (7)	6 (3)	22 (10)^#	0 (0)	22 (12)
Other complications^*	27 (7)	2 (2)	25 (11)^#	3 (11)	22 (12)

DIC: disseminated intravascular coagulation; ARF: acute respiratory failure; IVH: intraventricular hemorrhage.
“Other complications” include cortical blindness, hemiparesis, haemoglobinuria, heart failure, hypoglycaemia, intestinal perforation, and repeated convulsions.
^# < 0.05 compared to corresponding group with euglycemia.
Data are given as (%). % reflects the percentage of complications in all subjects ( = 430), in subjects with euglycemia ( = 215) and in subjects with dysglycemia (all ( = 215), hypoglycemia ( = 28), or hyperglycemia ( = 187)). There were 128 complications in 116 subjects.