Determining association between blood glucose variability and postoperative delirium in acute aortic dissection patients: methodological issues.
Cheng-Wen LiFu-Shan XueBin HuPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2021)
The letter to the editor made several comments regarding possible methodological issues in the recent article by Lin et al. determining the association between blood glucose variability and postoperative delirium in patients undergoing acute aortic dissection surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, which is published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2021; 16(1):82. Our concerns included the lack of some important perioperative factors associated with postoperative delirium, the process of establishing multivariate model and the method of using the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to assess the predictive performance of the standard deviation of blood glucose for the development of POD. We would like to invite the authors to comment on these and believe that clarifying these issues would improve the transparency of this study and interpretation of findings.
Keyphrases
- blood glucose
- aortic dissection
- patients undergoing
- cardiac surgery
- minimally invasive
- glycemic control
- end stage renal disease
- coronary artery bypass
- blood pressure
- hip fracture
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- peritoneal dialysis
- type diabetes
- surgical site infection
- prognostic factors
- liver failure
- systematic review
- adipose tissue
- randomized controlled trial
- data analysis
- patient reported
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- insulin resistance
- drug induced