Sunday, May 27, 2012
Is there a “Type 3 Diabetes”? Well, maybe...
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Doesn't the same confusion also exist with "type 1.5"?
Gretchen:
My comments about T3DM sorta kinda also apply to "type 1.5 diabetes" -- but with respect to T1.5, it's unofficially but widely-accepted jargon to describe LADA (see
Type one-and-a-half diabetes).
Bill
William W. Quick, MD, FACP, FACE
Editor, D-is-for-Diabetes
http://www.D-is-for-Diabetes.com
I've also seen it used to describe autoimmune diabetes coupled with IR.
As I said,
So it’s open season on naming Type 3 Diabetes – whatever you want to call T3DM is okay, but it’s as Charles Dodgson pointed out in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."