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Diabetes mellitus and its complications (diabetic ketoacidosis, nonketotic hyperosmolar syndrome) are the most common disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, but alcoholic ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia are also important.

Last full review/revision May 2007 by Jill P. Crandall, MD

Content last modified May 2007

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