“…There is no commonly accepted definition of postoperative hyperglycemia (35). The adopted cutoff points varied among different studies and included 7.0 mmol/L (12, 36), 8.0 mmol/L (17,18,37), 10.0 mmol/L (7,17,37,38), and 11.1 mmol/L (12, The Kaplan-Meier curves of overall survival in all patients. When compared with patients with TWA BG <8.0 mmol/L, the risk of 3-year death remained higher in those with TWA BG 8.0 to 10.0 mmol/L (adjusted HR 2.28, 95% CI 1.47 to 3.54, P < 0.001) and with TWA BG >10.0 mmol/L (adjusted HR 2.00, 95% CI 1.29 to 3.10, P = 0.002) after adjustment for confounding factors including age, sex, body mass index, chronic smoking, history of type II diabetes mellitus, American Society of Anesthesiologists classification, preoperative Barthel Index, preoperative hemoglobin, preoperative albumin, tumor-node-metastasis stage, type of anesthesia, site of surgery, Operative Stress Score, duration of surgery, intraoperative blood transfusion, endotracheal intubation on ICU admission, delirium within 7 days, and non-delirium complications within 30 days.…”