Low prevalence of hyponatremia codification in departments of internal medicine and its prognostic implications.

The article focuses on a study which discusses the profile of patients admitted to internal medicine departments of hospitals in Spain with a diagnostic codification of hyponatremia in their discharge sheets. It states that hyponatremia is an ionic disorder which is frequently found among ambulatory and hospitalized populations. It mentions that hyponatremia is underreported and under treated inspite of its devastating impact on hospital admittance.