Hyperglycemia can lead to another dangerous condition called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This condition most commonly occurs in people who have type 1 diabetes.14 DKA happens when the body has little or no insulin to use. As a result, blood sugars rise to dangerous levels, and the blood beco...
Acute complications include hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS). Chronic complications are further classified as microvascular or macrovascular. These changes are a consequence of long-term elevated glucose levels, which results in diabetic retinopathy, ...
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes are often dramatic and come on very suddenly. T1D is usually recognized in childhood or early adolescence, often in association with an injury or illness (such as a virus or urinary tract infection). The extra stress can cause diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Symptoms...
The most common form of the disease, T2D affects up to 95% of all people with diabetes. It's often referred to as adult-onset diabetes, but just as the rate of T1D in adults is escalating, so, too, is the rate of T2D in children, rising 4.8% per year between 2002 and 2015, ...
DKA happens when the liver is unable to use the sugar in the blood for energy without insulin and begins to break down body fat into a type of fuel called ketones at such a high rate that they become toxic and make the blood acidic, theU.S. National Library of Medicineexplains. DKA ...