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To the Editor: In the Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation–Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation (NICE-SUGAR) study (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00220987 [ClinicalTrials.gov] ), reported by Finfer et al. (March 26 issue),¹ intensive glucose control increased mortality. These findings are clearly at variance with the decreased mortality that we reported from our center in Leuven, Belgium.^2,3,4 Finfer et al. do not address several possible explanations for this discrepancy.

First, normoglycemia (blood glucose level, <110 mg per deciliter [6.1 mmol per liter]) was compared with distinct blood glucose control with target ranges of 140 to 180 mg per deciliter (7.8 to 10.0 mmol per liter) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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