[Retracted] Epidemiological Pattern of Newly Diagnosed Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Taif, Saudi Arabia

Table 4

Implication of different risk factors on the severity of presentation.

Points of comparison	Hyperglycemia		Mild DKA		Moderate-severe DKA		Total		𝑃 value
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
	20	20.2	28	28.3	51	51.5	99	100
District
Urban	11	27.5	10	25	19	47.5	40	40	𝑃>0.05
Rural	9	15.3	18	30.5	32	54.2	59	60
Symptom duration	12±7.6		14±9.5		15±8.6		—		𝑃>0.05
Type of feeding
Breastfeeding	5	26.3	2	10.5	12	63.2	19	19.2	𝑃<0.05
Cow’s milk	16	20.0	27	33.7	37	46.3	80	80.8
<3 months	6	21.4	7	25.0	15	53.6	28	28.3
3–6 months	2	8.3	13	54.2	9	37.5	24	24.2
>6 months	8	28.6	7	25	13	46.4	28	28.3
Positive family history of DM	17	85	23	82.1	38	74.5	78	78.8	𝑃>0.05

No.: number, DM: diabetes mellitus, DKA: diabetic ketoacidosis.