Recurrent episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) were associated with a substantially increased risk of death in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a retrospective single-center Scottish study.

Limitations of the study included its single-center design, which “does leave the generalizability of these results open to question,” Gibb and colleagues said.

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