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<blockquote data-quote="elaine77" data-source="post: 731097" data-attributes="member: 59930"><p>I would personally say it's way off the mark Tim.</p><p></p><p>The most accurate way I've ever heard it explained is that there are only 2 main types of diabetes and that is autoimmune diabetes (type1/LADA) and non-autoimmune diabetes (type2). They are completely different with one being a condition(non autoimmune) and one being a disease (autoimmune) and one resulting from insulin deficiency (autoimmune) and the other from insulin resistance (non autoimmune). </p><p></p><p>You can't 'catch' anything early enough to stop autoimmune diabetes but you can delay insulin dependency sometimes for an indiscriminate period of time.</p><p></p><p>There are, of course, exceptions like a genetic type of diabetes called MODY and also when someone is diabetic due to surgery/removal of the pancreas etc but these cases are much rarer and most diabetics will fall into either the autoimmune category or the non-autoimmune category.</p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed with autoimmune diabetes almost immediately but was told it was 'slow onset' because I only had one type of antibody - that being GAD. </p><p></p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elaine77, post: 731097, member: 59930"] I would personally say it's way off the mark Tim. The most accurate way I've ever heard it explained is that there are only 2 main types of diabetes and that is autoimmune diabetes (type1/LADA) and non-autoimmune diabetes (type2). They are completely different with one being a condition(non autoimmune) and one being a disease (autoimmune) and one resulting from insulin deficiency (autoimmune) and the other from insulin resistance (non autoimmune). You can't 'catch' anything early enough to stop autoimmune diabetes but you can delay insulin dependency sometimes for an indiscriminate period of time. There are, of course, exceptions like a genetic type of diabetes called MODY and also when someone is diabetic due to surgery/removal of the pancreas etc but these cases are much rarer and most diabetics will fall into either the autoimmune category or the non-autoimmune category. I was diagnosed with autoimmune diabetes almost immediately but was told it was 'slow onset' because I only had one type of antibody - that being GAD. :-) [/QUOTE]
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