Diabetes: Type 1 and 2 known for since 500 AD, Type 1.5 (LADA) known since 1993

Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults Wikipedia

  • ‘It is estimated that more than 50% of persons diagnosed as having non-obesity-related type 2 diabetes may actually have LADA’
  • “It is estimated that between 6-50% of all persons, depending on population, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes might actually have LADA.”
  • “ This number accounts for an estimated 5%-10% of the total diabetes population in the U.S. or, as many as 3.5 million persons with LADA”

What Is LADA Diabetes and Why is it Being Called a Pending Epidemic? June 2013 – good overview

  • Does it really matter how each one works, so long as your doctor diagnoses it and gives you the right treatment?
    Well, that’s the main problem with LADA
    it can be very hard to diagnose by a physician who hasn’t seen it before, and the treatment it requires is quite different from Type 1 OR Type 2.
  • "A misdiagnosis early can do irreparable damage and speed up the onset of insulin-dependence and full-on symptoms"

Characteristics and Prevalence of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) – 2009

Very different ways to treat Type 1, Type 2 and LADA
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See also VitaminDWiki

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:
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  • Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 38;   Obesity 35;  Pregnancy 44;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 24;  Genetics 12;  Magnesium 27    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

T1 Diabetes

Pre-Diabetes

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies

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