Prevalence of sleep apnoea in patients with type 1 diabetes and its association with comorbidities and diabetic complications: A French nationwide prospective study.

Aim: To investigate sleep apnoea prevalence, factors influencing severity, and associations between sleep apnoea severity and micro-/macrovascular complications in a large population of patients with type 1 diabetes.

Materials And Methods: This French multicentre prospective cohort study was conducted between July 2016 and June 2020. Adults with type 1 diabetes using an insulin pump were eligible.

Advantages to using capillary blood beta-hydroxybutyrate determination for the detection and treatment of diabetic ketosis.

Ketone body determination is indicated in all diabetic patients when the risk of ketotic decompensation exists. New methods of screening for ketosis, in particular capillary blood ketone body determination, provide analytical, technical and clinical advantages compared to the conventional ketonuria. It is proposed that a diabetic patient with hyperglycaemia (capillary blood glucose > 2.