Diabetic ketoacidosis in Asian children.

Alvi, N S; Davies, P; Kirk, J M; Shaw, N J · Arch Dis Child · 2001

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

Over the 10 year period 1987-1996, 328 children with type 1 diabetes mellitus presented in the city of Birmingham, England, of whom 27% had diabetic ketoacidosis. Asian children under the age of 5 had an eightfold increased risk of presenting in diabetic ketoacidosis compared with non-Asian children of the same age.

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