Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a genetically linked, autoimmune form of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) that accounts for 2–12% of all cases of diabetes.The goal of our study is to detect LADA among patients who were diagnosed as type 2 DM and who became insulin requiring.Methods: Our study included 45 patients (15 men, 30 women) diagnosed as type 2 DM, who had a poor glycemic control on oral hypogl...