You may ask, “What is a latent diabetic?” Latent diabetic autoimmunity is similar to type-1 diabetes, but it occurs in adults and is sometimes mistaken for type-2 diabetes. The disorder is deemed latent diabetes in adult (LADA) or sometime diabetes type 1.5. In type-1 diabetes patients cannot produce insulin on their own due to an autoimmune disorder where antibodies attack the cells in the pancreas which produces insulin. Islet autoantibodies, which are commonly found in type-1 diabetes, are also present in a latent diabetic.

A latent diabetic will be diagnosed with LADA if they meet the following criteria:

1. They are at least 30 years of age.
2. They test positive for at least one of the autoantibodies found in type-1 diabetes.
3. They have been free from insulin treatment for the first six months after diagnosis.

LADA is also similar to type-2 diabetes is that it occurs in adults, there …