Why arterial Pco2 decreases in type 1 diabetics?

[Julian99]

i thought, the opposite was true

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[ASM student]

If you are talking about DKA then it's because the metabolic acidosis caused by the ketonemia is compansated by increased respiratory rate to wash out co2(acidotic breathing) in attempt to increase pH back to normal

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