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New profiles of diabetic ketoacidosis: type 1 vs type 2 diabetes and the effect of ethnicity.
Archives of internal medicine - 25 Oct 1999
Balasubramanyam A, Zern J W, Hyman D J, Pavlik V
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BACKGROUND: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has been reported to occur in type 2 diabetes, but the frequency and distinguishing features of this syndrome remain to be defined. We determined the "diabetic types," ethnic distributions, and phenotypes of patients with DKA in an urban hospital. METHODS: We reviewed the hospital admissions and followed the clinical course of adults who developed DKA. We classified...
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