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Clinical Diabetes 19:81, 2001
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2001

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Hyperglycemic Emergencies: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know

Irl B. Hirsch, MD

Until the discovery of insulin in the early 1920s, the mortality rate from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) was virtually 100%. The current overall mortality from DKA in developed countries is now between 2 and 10%, a rate that has not changed in 3 decades.1

It is estimated that 2–8% of all hospital admissions are for the treatment of DKA. By contrast, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) accounts for 1 in 1,000 hospital admissions.2 Published mortality rates for HHS vary, but the trend . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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