Lada Use Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

• What is Lada and what causes it?

  Like the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, Lada occurs because your pancreas stops producing adequate insulin, most likely from some "insult" that slowly damages the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

• How do you manage Lada?

  At first, Lada can be managed by controlling your blood sugar with diet, losing weight if appropriate, exercise and, possibly, oral medications. But as your body gradually loses its ability to produce insulin, you'll eventually need insulin shots.

• What is Lada ?

  Many researchers believe Lada, sometimes called type 1.5 diabetes, is a subtype of type 1 diabetes, while others do not recognize it as a distinct entity. Other researchers believe diabetes occurs on a continuum, with Lada falling between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. People who have Lada are usually over age 30.

• 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.