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ED admissions for type 2 diabetic ketoacidosis rise during pandemic: study

​​​​​​​Researchers have tracked changes in the pattern of UK hospital admissions for the complication across successive pandemic waves
Clare Pain
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8 September 2021
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Emergency admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) during the pandemic followed different trajectories for patients with type 1 and type 2 disease, UK researchers report.

While admissions for DKA in patients with existing type 2 diabetes rose – as did admissions with DKA in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes – admissions for the complication in people with type 1 diabetes fell, their data reveal.

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