The researchers concluded that emergency physicians often diagnose DKA despite the absence of initial laboratory criteria, ...

Diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, is a life-threatening condition that develops when the body is unable to break down blood sugar appropriately and begins breaking down large amounts of fat instead. It ...

About one in five people with type 1 diabetes in the United States hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is readmitted within 30 days, new research shows. "The 20% [readmission] rate was quite ...

Patients experiencing life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) require quick action, diligent care and close monitoring ...

Many children who develop type 1 diabetes, the inability to produce insulin and process blood sugar, do not know they have the condition until symptoms arise. These symptoms are often driven by a ...

Readmission isn't uncommon for patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. In a review of over 90,000 hospitalizations involving an episode of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), about 20.2% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From 2010 to 2020, cases of diabetic ketoacidosis at delivery rose with a mean annual percentage change of 10.8% ...

The study covered in this summary was published in Preprints with The Lancet and has not yet been peer reviewed. Across sites in the UK and Ireland, there was an increase in new-onset pediatric ...

In a recent study, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, researchers evaluated trends in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) prevalence at pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) diagnosis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with diabetic ketoacidosis at type 1 diabetes diagnosis did not have a significant difference in HbA1c ...