Many practitioners may encounter adult patients with symptoms such as polyuria and weight loss, typically seen in the juvenile diabetes population, and miss the diagnosis of diabetes. Moreover, even ...

Receiving a diabetes diagnosis can be bittersweet. You may feel anxious and scared about what lies ahead and relieved knowing you’ll be connected with the right treatment. But what if the diagnosis ...

I've been diagnosed with LADA—latent autoimmune diabetes in adults. What's the difference between it and other forms of diabetes? Answer From M. Regina Castro, M.D. Latent autoimmune diabetes in ...

Most people have heard of type 1 diabetes, a chronic condition in which the pancreas makes too little or no insulin, and type 2 diabetes, which occurs when high blood sugar levels affects both insulin ...

Scientists who performed the largest-ever genetic study of a puzzling type of adult-onset diabetes have uncovered new connections to the two major types of diabetes, offering intriguing insights into ...

Diabetes is very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 38.4 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes. That’s 11.6 percent of the ...