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01.07.2010 | Commentary
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is dead: long live autoimmune diabetes!
verfasst von:
O. Rolandsson, J. P. Palmer
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 7/2010
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Excerpt
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) prevails as a name in diabetes research although it was ranked as the second silliest name some years ago [
1]. LADA describes a subgroup of patients who develop phenotypic type 2 diabetes but with markers of autoimmunity [
2,
3]. In 2005, we tried to describe the background to LADA and establish a definition based on adult age at onset, presence of autoantibodies and lack of requirement for insulin at least 6 months after diagnosis [
4]. Both the age and the insulin criteria were soon questioned [
1,
5], but they also gained some support [
6]. The question of how to define LADA has resulted in numerous articles and debates discussing whether LADA is a disease on its own or just a variant of type 1 diabetes [
7‐
9]. Thus, it could be questioned whether the introduction of the term LADA has been an asset or an obstacle to our understanding of diabetes. …