alt Hacker NewsConsidering that DKA accounts for 160k hospital admissions a year, your lived experience translates poorly to such a flippant dismissal.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/diabetic-ketoacidosis.htm...
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crisnoble • yesterday at 9:07 PM
A CGM that has ketone levels is quite literally pointless. If you have a CGM in the first place you would know if your sugars were high enough for long enough to get DKA.
badc0ffee • yesterday at 8:12 PM
DKA is what killed the legendary Dan Kaminsky.
I agree, but there are a lot of factors going on to contribute to that number.
For example, about 20% of that number is because someone is finding out for the first time they have T1D [1].
Insulin costs and monitoring costs are also going to be a pretty big contributing factor. CGMs and finger sticks aren't cheap.
IDK how often it happens that ketoacidosis happens when glucose appears to be fine, I assume it's pretty rare.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016882272...