Diabetes Type 1.5 - Diagnosing Latent Autoimmune Diabetes

Diagnosing Latent Autoimmune Diabetes

It is estimated that 20% of persons diagnosed as having non-obesity-related type 2 diabetes may actually have LADA. Islet cell, insulin, and GAD antibodies testing should be performed on all adults who are not obese that appear to present with type 2 diabetes. Not all people having LADA are thin or skinny, however—there are overweight individuals carrying LADA but not getting accurately diagnosed because of their weight. These individuals are more often denied insulin by their health care physicians, considering people who were diagnosed with or have type 2 diabetes are given those treatments by diabetes specialists or their physicians extremely often. Moreover, it is now becoming evident that autoimmune diabetes may be highly underdiagnosed in many individuals who have diabetes, and that the body mass index levels may have rather limited use in connections with latent autoimmune diabetes. Also, many physicians or diabetes specialists don't recognize LADA or probably don't know the condition actually exists, and so LADA is misdiagnosed as or mistaken for Type 2 diabetes highly often.