Prognosis
The mortality rate is 5% in experienced centers. Death is rarely caused by the metabolic complications of hyperglycemia or ketoacidosis but rather relates to the underlying illness. The prognosis is substantially worsened at the extremes of age and in the presence of coma and hypotension.[1] DKA may have adverse effects on neurocognition and brain development and function in children who experience it, and recurrent DKA is a risk factor for the development of cognitive impairment in those with type 1 diabetes.[3]
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