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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The strongest genetic risk loci for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults are shared with type 1 diabetes; however, established type 2 diabetes alleles also play a weaker role in the disease, according to findings from a genome-wide association study published in Diabetes Care.
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and its relationship with type 1 and type 2 diabetes is not appropriately encapsulated in the term “type 1.5 diabetes,” which LADA is often informally called, Diana L. Cousminer, PhD, a geneticist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues wrote in the study background. In many populations, LADA is at least as prevalent as childhood-onset type 1 diabetes but is frequently misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes due to its presentation in adults without the need for insulin, they wrote.
https://www.healio.com/endocrinolog...tors-may-distinguish-form-of-type-15-diabetes
Very interesting. I wonder if they'd like to come and study me? 🙂
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and its relationship with type 1 and type 2 diabetes is not appropriately encapsulated in the term “type 1.5 diabetes,” which LADA is often informally called, Diana L. Cousminer, PhD, a geneticist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues wrote in the study background. In many populations, LADA is at least as prevalent as childhood-onset type 1 diabetes but is frequently misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes due to its presentation in adults without the need for insulin, they wrote.
https://www.healio.com/endocrinolog...tors-may-distinguish-form-of-type-15-diabetes
Very interesting. I wonder if they'd like to come and study me? 🙂
