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Diabetes Care 28:496-497, 2005
© 2005 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.

Letters: Observations

Extrapancreatic Autoimmunity in Patients With Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults

Pedro Weslley Souza Rosario, MD, Janice Sepulveda Reis, MD, Michelle Aparecida Borges, MD, Ricardo Amim, MD, Maria Regina Calsolari, MD, Saulo Cavalcanti Silva, MD and Saulo Purisch, MD

From the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology Service, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Address correspondence to Pedro Weslley Souza Rosário, MD, Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa da Clinica de Endocrinologia e Metabologia (CEPCEM), Av Francisco Sales, 1111, 5 andar Ala D, Santa Efigênia, CEP 30150-221, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. E-mail: pedrorosario@globo.com

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Type 1 diabetes often occurs in association with other autoimmune diseases (thyroid disease [1–3], Addison’s disease [2], celiac disease [1,3], autoimmune gastropathy [4], and others), with autoimmune thyroiditis beingthe most common (1–3). To determine whether these autoimmune diseases are also more frequent in patients with latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA), we compared the prevalence of anti–21 {alpha}-hydroxylase (21OHAb), anti–thyroid peroxidase (TPOAb), anti–parietal gastric cell antibodies, and rheumatoid factor in a group of patients with LADA versus patients with type 2 diabetes.

Fifty-four patients with LADA (>35 years of age at diagnosis who did not require insulin for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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