Article
The broad clinical phenotype of Type 1 diabetes at presentation.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Feb 2013
Merger S R, Leslie R D, Boehm B O
Abstract excerpt
Immune-mediated (auto-immune) Type 1 diabetes mellitus is not a homogenous entity, but nonetheless has distinctive characteristics. In children, it may present with classical insulin deficiency and ketoacidosis at disease onset, whereas autoimmune diabetes in adults may not always be insulin dependent. Indeed, as the adult-onset form of autoimmune diabetes may resemble Type 2 diabetes, it is imperative to test...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Autoantibodies
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Disease Progression
- Female
