Putting it All Together: Diabetes

Question 1

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adulthood (LADA)
Clinically:

• Age >__
• BMI < ___
• __family history
• History of catabolic symptoms/ significant ___
• __ signs/ sx of insulin resistance (yes or no)
• __ progression towards insulin requirement (quick or slow)

What antibodies would you see?

Answer 1

• Age >30
• BMI < 25
• No family history
• History of catabolic symptoms/ significant ketosis
• NO signs/ sx of insulin resistance
• Slower progression towards insulin requirement

Biochemically:

• anti-glucatmic acid decarboxylase antibodies
• anti-islet cell antibodies