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You're right. DKA is the result of the body burning fat for fuel when insufficient insulin prevents it from burning glucose. I should have remembered that. My p
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
You're right. DKA is the result of the body burning fat for fuel when insufficient insulin prevents it from burning glucose. I should have remembered that. My patients with DKA always had a BGL of 500 or more (5x normal), so that's why I mistakenly associated DKA with high sugar.