Surprising and Unsurprising Findings Involving Hemoglobin A1c Levels and Spine Surgery
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What’s the Claim?
This one is simultaneously unsurprising and surprising, and it’s useful. A systematic review of over 20 articles in spine surgery — about 20,000 patients’ data — found that patients who had diabetes and a hemoglobin A1c level of over 8% were more likely to have complications after surgery, and those who developed surgical site infections in particular had higher hemoglobin A1c levels than those who did not.
Don’t click “delete.” There’s something to get from this one.
