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Individuals can be sent to the Emergency Room (ER) for a variety of reasons. Our goal was to determine the differences in reasons and frequencies for visits to the ER between individuals with and without diabetes. This study was conducted by way of review of ER visit sheets over a three month period at tertiary care centre in Winnipeg, Canada. Examination of the control group (individuals without diabetes) revealed the most common documented reason for ER visits were cardiac complications (49.56%), hypertension (26.25%), renal conditions (15.34%), and neurological complications (5.90%). For the Type 1 diabetes group, reasons for visit to the ER were cardiac complications (33.33%), neurological complications (18.06%), and hypertension, nephropathy, DKA/glycemic control, and infectious diseases (all at 13.89%). Analyzing the documented diagnosis of type 2 individuals revealed similar trends to non-diabetic individuals. Cardiac complications (52.86%) dominated the reasons for admittance to the emergency room, followed by hypertension (32.36%), renal conditions (11.30%), neurological (4.32%), and DKA/glycemic control issues (0.42%), Type 2 diabetes patients presented with similar reasons for visit as patients without diabetes, and thus it appeared as though patients with Type 2 diabetes did not visit the ER primarily due to glycemic control issues. In type 1 diabetes patients, neurological and DKA/glycemic concerns were of higher occurrence than in patients with Type 2 or no diabetes. Cardiovascular, hypertension, and renal concerns constituted major reason for ER visit in all three groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]