Endocrine Abstracts

Latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood (LADA) is the most common form of autoimmune Diabetes diagnosed in Adults. Approximately 5–12%of cases in Europeans with apparent type2Diabetes are in facts misdiagnosed LADA. This is a heterogeneous condition that presents with clinical and laboratory manifestations common to type1diabetes and type2 diabetes. Its main feature is the presence of diabetes-associated autoantibodies (mostly autoantibody against glutamicaciddecarboxylas...