Increasing prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis at diabetes diagnosis among children in Quebec: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis at type 1 diabetes diagnosis is a preventable life-threatening complication. Canadian data on the temporal trends of the prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis at the onset of type 1 diabetes in children are unknown. We aimed to determine the temporal changes in diabetic ketoacidosis prevalence at diabetes diagnosis in Quebec.

Living with sensor-augmented pump therapy in type 1 diabetes: adolescents' and parents' search for harmony.

Objective: Adolescents have difficulty successfully sustaining use of continuous glucose monitoring even when it is introduced to experienced pump users. However, little is known about how adolescents and parents perceive and manage sensor-augmented pump therapy (SAPT) in daily life. The purpose of this study was to explore adolescents' and parents' daily experience of living with SAPT.