You might associate type 1 diabetes with children, teenagers or young adults.

However in some cases this autoimmune condition can come on later in life — and this is not latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA).

It can be hard to recognise, and sometimes mistaken for type 2 diabetes when there are risk factors at play like obesity.

Guests

• Daryl Mitchell 
• Professor Jonathon Shaw, Endocrinologist and Deputy Director at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

References

• The epidemiology of type 1 diabetes mellitus in older adults