Lada Care Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

• What is Lada and how is it treated?

  At first, Lada can be managed like the earlier stages of type 2 diabetes — with changes in diet and exercise, and then, perhaps some oral diabetes medications. This stage could persist for years until you are producing so little insulin that these treatment methods simply don’t work, and insulin injections become critical.

• What are the challenges of living with Lada?

  For some people with diabetes, the first challenging obstacle you might face is simply getting an accurate diagnosis. Lada is a type of diabetes that’s often misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes and thus mistreated for years.

• What is Lada diabetes?

  Lada stands for “ latent autoimmune diabetes in adults .” Also known as type 1.5, this form of diabetes is essentially type 1 diabetes but it progresses very slowly, over the course of years instead of months.

• How old do you have to be to have LADA?

  People who have Lada are usually over age 30. Because they're older when symptoms develop than is typical for someone with type 1 diabetes and because initially their pancreases still produce some insulin, people with Lada are often misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

• What is latent autoimmune diabetes in adults ?

  Abstract Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (Lada) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by a less intensive autoimmune process and a broad clinical phenotype compared to classical type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), sharing features with both type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and T1DM.

• Is latent autoimmune diabetes in adults a heterogeneous disease?

  This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (Lada) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by a less intensive autoimmune process and a broad clinical phenotype compared to classical type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), sharing features with both type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and T1DM.

• Is a clinically orientated approach effective for screening for latent autoimmune diabetes?

  A clinically orientated approach increases the efficiency of screening for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (Lada) in a large clinic-based cohort of patients with diabetes onset over 50 years. Diabet Med. 2004;21:456–459. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

• What is adult-onset autoimmune type 1 diabetes?

  Alternative terms that have been used to describe adult-onset autoimmune Type 1 diabetes when it is not insulin dependent include: latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (Lada), Type 1.5 diabetes, slowly progressive insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or double diabetes.