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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
LADA isn?t the newest version of a hot coffee and milk beverage; rather it stands for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults. You may not have heard of it?it isn?t as common as type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes, or even regular type 1 diabetes? but physicians have been familiar with it for a while. Like type 1 diabetes, LADA involves the almost complete destruction of the beta producing insulin cells by the body?s own immune system. Some researchers categorize LADA as a subset of type 1 diabetes, while others think of it as simply a way station in the continuum between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Other scientists do not believe it is a separate disease at all. For them, type 1 diabetes has many different expressions and LADA is simply one of them.
http://blog.joslin.org/2014/02/what-is-lada/
http://blog.joslin.org/2014/02/what-is-lada/