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. 2001 Jul;85(1):60–61. doi: 10.1136/adc.85.1.60

Diabetic ketoacidosis in Asian children

N Alvi 1, P Davies 1, J Kirk 1, N Shaw 1
PMCID: PMC1718843  PMID: 11420205

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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