key: cord-0898020-t0evkx3e
authors: Wu, Yutong; Xu, Yite; Meng, Zhaoyou
title: Comment on “Diabetic ketoacidosis precipitated by Covid-19 in a patient with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus”
date: 2020-07-12
journal: Diabetes Res Clin Pract
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108287
sha: 674e7b8541ed7a6e2ed866e4e10c662b6157cb21
doc_id: 898020
cord_uid: t0evkx3e

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PH of blood is lower than 7.35. However, in the above-mentioned table, the arterial blood gas analysis of the patient showed that the PH was 7.28, and the reference range was 7.25-7.35, which made us confused and suspected that there was an error. According to our comprehension, the reference range in the table should be corrected to 7.35-7.45. If the author did not make mistakes,the blood PH of 7.28 is within the so-called normal reference range, then where does the diagnosis of ketoacidosis come from? In addition, there is also a problem with the unit of PH. The definition of pH is the negative logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration, and there is no unit. The unit in the table is "mmHg". This should be an obvious mistake.

This article was concerned and quoted by a correspondence article of The New England Journal of Medicine 2 , the author of this article and the journal will also receive more attention. We hope that we can correct possible mistakes or get an explanation from the author as soon as possible.

Diabetic ketoacidosis precipitated by Covid-19 in a patient with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus

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