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1. epcoa · 1790279451 · focus · HN ↗

   "Some day, your immune system may decide to attack your pancreas."

   Immune attack of the pancreas is usually a disease of youth. Type 2 diabetes which is overwhelmingly the diabetes associated with aging is not an autoimmune disease.

   1. joshmarinacci · 1790281595 · focus · HN ↗

      Adult onset Type 1 has become a lot more common in recent decades. Ask me how I know.

      1. quantumwoke · 1790299325 · focus · HN ↗

         It's so rare in adults it's got the cute name maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY).

         1. epcoa · 1790301121 · focus · HN ↗

            MODY is something else entirely (a genetic mutation driven disease with distinct pathophysiology from Type 1). What’s being discussed here is LADA (late autoimmune diabetes in adults). LADA itself isn’t that rare but it is a small minority of all cases of diabetes in older adults.

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