Pathology of Ketoacidosis in Emergency of Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Alcoholic Ketoacidosis: A Retrospective Study

Table 1

Comparison of various values between DKA and AKA patients on admission.

Parameters	DKA patients ()	AKA patients ()	value
Male/female	5/9	4/3
T1DM/T2DM	7/7	NA
Age (years)			0.5253
Height (cm)			0.5743
Body weight (kg)			0.0133
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.0106
Total ketone body (μmol/L)			0.1144
Acetoacetic acid (μmol/L)			0.0179
β-Hydroxybutyric acid (μmol/L)			0.1605
β-OHB/AcAc			0.1265
pH			0.0133
BE (mEq/L)			0.0160
Lactate (mEq/L)			0.0005

Comparison of various values among patients with DKA and AKA in this study. Data presented as . with the Wilcoxon rank sum test compared to DKA or AKA. Abbreviations: DKA: diabetic ketoacidosis; AKA: alcoholic ketoacidosis; T1DM: type 1 diabetes mellitus; T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; BMI: body mass index; β-OHB: β-hydroxybutyrate; AcAc: acetoacetate; BE: base excess.