Originally Posted by cs_carver

1. You're in intensive care.

2. For more than seven days.

3. Some unknown percentage of you don't leave.

I'm also thinking that we're not talking about too many sudden-trauma patients, because they wouldn't have needed the insulin in the first place.

So I would like to know, "relative to what?" What were the baseline lipid levels? If you're that sick, it's quite possibly diabetes, liver problems, severe heart problems. EVERYTHING's out of whack. Are we talking "a little better than baseline," or "higher than Mt. Everest and now even higher than that?"

But more: Sure hope I never need this discovery, but glad nevertheless they know it.