Is why mortality increased in health-care-associated pneumonia : lessons from pneumococcal bacteremic pneumonia?
Pneumococcal HCAP presents excess mortality, which is independent of bacterial susceptibility. Differences in outcomes were probably due to differences in age, comorbidities, and criteria for ICU admission rather than to therapeutic decisions.
Maternal serum PTX3 levels were found to be significantly related to high blood glucose levels. This may be an indicator of vascular pathology in GDM around the time of an oral glucose tolerance test.