Atypical diabetes: clarifying the muddy waters

D Steenkamp, S Alexanian, E Sternthal - CMAJ, 2014 - Can Med Assoc
We are writing this letter in response to Steenkamp and collegues' recent review article. 1
We have several concerns about the content of this review particularly in the context of the …

[HTML][HTML] Approach to the patient with atypical diabetes

DW Steenkamp, SM Alexanian, E Sternthal - CMAJ, 2014 - Can Med Assoc
The overarching term “diabetes mellitus” represents a heterogeneous group of metabolic
conditions characterized by hyperglycemia. All of these conditions are underpinned by a …

Ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes: time to revise the classification of diabetes

GE Umpierrez - Diabetes care, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is the most serious hyperglycemic emergency in patients with
diabetes. DKA is reported to be responsible for 100,000 hospital admissions per year in the …

Atypical diabetes: a diagnostic challenge

Å Sjöholm - BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 2020 - drc.bmj.com
In medical school, we learned how to classify diabetes according to different clinical
characteristics. However, at the dawn of the precision medicine era, it is clear that today's …

Narrative review: ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes mellitus

GE Umpierrez, D Smiley, AE Kitabchi - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - acpjournals.org
Several investigators have reported that more than half of African-American persons with
new diagnoses of diabetic ketoacidosis have clinical, metabolic, and immunologic features …

Diabetic ketoacidosis: a common debut of diabetes among African Americans with type 2 diabetes

P Vellanki, GE Umpierrez - Endocrine Practice, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective: More than half of African Americans (AA) with a new diagnosis of diabetic
ketoacidosis have clinical and metabolic features of type 2 diabetes during follow-up. This …

[HTML][HTML] High Prevalence of Aβ+ Ketosis-Prone Diabetes in Children with Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis: Evidence from the Rare and …

E Kubota-Mishra, X Huang, CG Minard, M Astudillo… - Pediatric …, 2024 - hindawi.com
Background. A− β+ ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) in adults is characterized by presentation
with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), negative islet autoantibodies, and preserved β-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting adult-onset autoimmune diabetes: clarity from complexity

RD Leslie - Diabetes, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
W “hat is time?” asked Saint Augustine in his Confessions,“When someone asks me, I know.
But as soon as someone comes to question me on this matter, and I try to explain, I don't …

Type 2 diabetes presenting as diabetic ketoacidosis in adolescence

J Valabhji, M Watson, J Cox, C Poulter… - Diabetic …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We report two black adolescent subjects who presented with diabetic ketoacidosis, but who
lacked autoimmune markers and demonstrated clinical and biochemical characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Diabetes Type 1 and 2: What is Behind a Classification?

A Mimbacas, G Javiel - Type 1 Diabetes-Complications …, 2011 - intechopen.com
At present, we wonder if the current classification of diabetes agrees with the new advances
At the molecular genetic level. Every day we can see an exponential increase of type 1 and …