LADA
Sudipa Sarkar, M.D., Thomas Donner, M.D.
DEFINITION
DEFINITION
DEFINITION
- Adult-onset type 1 diabetes (commonly termed "Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults" or LADA)
- Slowly developing type 1 diabetes, often misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes, that progresses relatively quickly to insulin dependence as pancreatic beta cell failure progresses
- Also called "slowly progressing insulin-dependent diabetes", "type 2 diabetes with islet autoantibodies", and "type 1.5 diabetes"
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