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Diabetic ketoacidosis in children: diagnosis and management

Author(s) -

Rasika Gunapala

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

sri lanka journal of child health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2386-110X

pISSN - 1391-5452

DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v39i2.1963

Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , medicine , scopus , publishing , transparency (behavior) , library science , family medicine , medical education , medline , political science , south asia , law , history , ethnology , computer science

DKA is most frequent in children less than 5 years old and becomes less common with increasing age. In a carefully analyzed cohort of paediatric patients who had new onset diabetes mellitus (DM) with DKA, 23% of the children presented with DKA. Thirty six percent of children below 5 years of age presented with DKA as the initial diagnosis compared to 16% of children older than 14 years of age. In children with established DM, the risk of DKA is 1-10% patients per year 3 .

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