double diabetes

[Gostrydr]

Pretty alarming..next will be a hybrid diabetes where half your face melts off..

http://www.livescience.com/healthday/534999.html

[cs_carver]

Pondering the mechanism and am curious to know the breakdown--how many of the double-d patients are people who have grown up with Type I now getting type 2, vs fat kids where the etiology could be really confused.

May well find that D2 with the adults is an unexpected outcome of very fancy pumps and constant blood testing. I can imagine a pathway by which exacting control "allows" a typeI diabetic to eat more junk and think it's being controlled by adjusting insulin doses, which then leads to enough body fat to cause type2.

Don't quite see it in the kids, except that eating crap as a young person will turn out to have worse consequences than we know today.

Charming prospects.

[Nancy LC]

Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that destroys your islet cells. I think with the 1.5 you get the autoimmune disease because they can detect the antibodies. Type II isn't an autoimmune disease. So if your islet cells are getting attacked by your immune system while you've got Type 2, that would be double diabetes.

I read a different article about this a few weeks back.

[dina1957]

Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that destroys your islet cells. I think with the 1.5 you get the autoimmune disease because they can detect the antibodies. Type II isn't an autoimmune disease. So if your islet cells are getting attacked by your immune system while you've got Type 2, that would be double diabetes.

I read a different article about this a few weeks back.
last I have read there is also so called MODY - Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/m/mody_diabetes/intro.htm