High blood sugar, obesity increase risk for surgical site infection

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Two recent studies in the July issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) looked at surgical site infections and hyperglycemia, the technical term for high blood glucose, or high blood sugar.

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