Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Admission Hyperglycemia and Clinical Outcome in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis”

We thank Choudhary et al1 for their interest in our study on hyperglycemia in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT).2Regarding their first remark: we feel that it is unlikely that inclusion of patients with unrecognized diabetes mellitus biased the results. First, CVT mostly affects young and middle-aged adults, as is apparent from the mean age in the study (40 years for the entire cohort). At this age, diabetes mellitus is not a common condition among subjects with a European-Caucasian descent, which was the most common ethnicity of our patients. Diabetes mellitus is also not a …