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Diabetic ketoacidosis in Asian children
1Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK. nsalvi@ulth.northy.nhs.uk
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|June 23, 2001
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.