Type Casting? Not your traditional type 1 or type 2 diabetes...

Advance for Nurses ^ | May 9, 2005 | Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN

[tertiary01]

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, or LADA, refers to a form of type 1 diabetes that occurs not in childhood ot young adulthood-as is customary-but rather in individuals age 30 or older...

[tertiary01]

Several members of my family have diabetes and not one of them has heard of this from their physicians. Thought it might be informative

[tertiary01]

This link works



http://www.nursing.advanceweb.com/common/EditorialSearch/AViewer.aspx?AN=NW_05may9_n3p30.html&AD=05-09-2005

[muawiyah]

Very good article. My doctor reported to me that she had several Type II patients who had the experience described in this article. BTW, "recurrent hypoglycemia" means you end up driving your blood sugar below 70 mg/dl every now and then.

Fat chance of that! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ROTFLMAO. I eat maybe 50 grams of carbohydrate per day and have a hard time getting down to 100. Still, my A1C is in the mid 5s.

[Pharmboy]

They haven't heard of it because it is far less common than the typical adult-onset type 2. The key: is the patient overweight or obese? It has been classically taught that 85% of type 2s are overweight/obese, thus many of the other 15% would be LADAs.

[tertiary01]

I have had a few adult onset so called type 2's patients, diet and med compliant that just seem to eventually need insulin for BG control. This article was the first I had read on the possibility of the auto immune theory becoming mainstream at least for some types of diabetes.