Diabetes type 2 may confound the SaO2 values

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Data Preparation Repository: code to curate ICU Pulse Oximetry data

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Diabetes type 2 may confound the SaO2 values #8

Open joamats opened 1 year ago

joamats commented 1 year ago

Kindly brought up by @mirkompcr, this paper indicates that patients with diabetes type 2 may have altered SaO2 values. Shall we extract information on diabetes to add as an confounding comorbidity? Reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985301/

mirkompcr commented 1 year ago

we already have code for disbetes yes/no however this study only found a difference in those with bad glycemic control (ie hba1c >7%) and we are lacking this piece of info