Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide
LADA
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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Last updated: June 11, 2020
Citation
Sarkar, Sudipa, and Thomas Donner. "LADA." Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide, The Johns Hopkins University, 2020. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547084/7/LADA.
Sarkar S, Donner T. LADA. Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2020. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547084/7/LADA. Accessed October 31, 2025.
Sarkar, S., & Donner, T. (2020). LADA. In Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide. The Johns Hopkins University. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547084/7/LADA
Sarkar S, Donner T. LADA [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2020. [cited 2025 October 31]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547084/7/LADA.
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