Latent Autoimmune Diabetes

NEW ORLEANS — In part two of a three-part video exclusive series, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Rifka C. Schulman-Rosenbaum, MD, FACE, FACP, about the steps providers should take when a patient screens positive for type 1 diabetes.

Adults diagnosed with latent autoimmune diabetes have similar morality risk and a higher risk for diabetic retinopathy than adults with type 2 diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Adults with latent autoimmune diabetes are 25% more likely to develop microvascular complications beginning in the decade after diagnosis when compared with adults with type 2 diabetes, suggesting that early identification through the measurement of diabetes-related autoantibodies can help reduce risk for adverse outcomes, according to findings from a post hoc analysis published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.