Increasing prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis at diabetes diagnosis among children in Quebec: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetic ketoacidosis at type 1 diabetes diagnosis is a preventable life-threatening complication. Canadian data on the temporal trends of the prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis at the onset of type 1 diabetes in children are unknown. We aimed to determine the temporal changes in diabetic ketoacidosis prevalence at diabetes diagnosis in Quebec.

Methods

We conducted a population-based cohort study of children (aged 1-17 yr) living in Quebec who were diagnosed with diabetes between 2001 and 2014, using multiple health administrative linked databases available at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec through the Quebec Integrated Chronic Surveillance System. We used multivariate Poisson regression analysis with robust error variance to determine trends i

SUBMITTER: Robinson ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517121 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature