There are times in a person’s journey with diabetes that it may be necessary to reclassify their diagnosis. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Diabetes Nurse Educator Jijimol Arun explains how misclassification happens and how important it is to get a diabetes diagnosis right.
Increased thirst, increased urination, hunger and tiredness. These are all symptoms of type 2 diabetes. But, they are also symptoms of type 1 diabetes, which can make distinguishing between the two difficult.
Then, throw in latent autoimmune diabetes in adulthood (LADA), a sub-group of type 1 diabetes,