Diabetic ketoacidosis in adults.

Data from the UK National Diabetes audit shows a crude one year incidence of 3.6% among people with type 1 diabetes. In the UK nearly 4% of people with type 1 diabetes experience DKA each year, the number of DKA episodes per 100 patient years is 4.8, about 6% of cases of DKA occur in adults newly presenting with type 1 diabetes, and about 8% of episodes occur in hospital patients who did not primarily present with DKA.