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What's the difference of ketoacidosis and diabetic ketoacidosis?
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High blood sugar: Both conditions are a sign of cellular deprivation of glucose. In diabetes type 1 there is absence of insufficient Insulin so the sugar is elevated in the blood but low in liver cells and they start producing ketones. In starvation due to anorexia or alcoholism there in not enough glucose available so it also produces ketones. They are treated differently of course.
Answered 4/30/2015
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