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”

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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"

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

Very different ways to treat Type 1, Type 2 and LADA

PDF is attached at the bottom of this page

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Search Vitamin D Life for LADA 10 items as of Aug 2014
• Does Vitamin D Affect Risk of Developing Autoimmune Disease?: A Systematic Review File, not a webpage
• Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary
• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 454 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
  • which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:

• Dark Skin 22;   Intervention 49;   Meta-analysis 28;   Obesity 26;  Pregnancy 39;   T1 (child) 34;  Omega-3 10;  Vitamin D Receptor 18;  Genetics 10;  Magnesium 18    Click here to see details