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Flatbush diabetes is a mosaicism of clinical manifestations that goes by several names: Flatbush diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD), type 1.5 diabetes, or atypical diabetes . While it goes by many different names, this new form of diabetes appears to be increasingly documented all around the world in the last several decades yet remains ...
Ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) is an intermediate form of diabetes that has some characteristics of type 1 and some of type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes involves autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells which create insulin.
2 paź 2018 · Ketosis-prone diabetes or Flatbush diabetes has been widely recognized as a clinical entity since 1984. Most of the early clinical studies focused on African American or Afro-Caribbean individuals. It is now being recognized as an important clinical entity in sub-Saharan Africans, Asian and Indian populations, and Hispanic populations.
24 sty 2022 · Ketone-prone diabetes or Flatbush diabetes is being increasingly recognized worldwide. It is typically seen in obese middle-aged men with a family history of Type 2 DM. Atypicality in the onset of age and gender variation is increasingly observed worldwide.
2 paź 2018 · KPD is defined as a syndrome in which diabetes commences with ketoacidosis in individuals who are GAD and anti-islet cell antibody negative and have no known precipitating causes. The patients present during middle age, are overweight or mildly obese, and in many reports are more likely to be male.
8 sty 2013 · Ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes mellitus also known as atypical or flatbush diabetes is being increasingly recognised worldwide. These patients are typically obese, middle-aged men with a strong family history of type 2 diabetes.
22 sie 2023 · INTRODUCTION. Since the mid-1990s, increasing attention has been focused on a heterogeneous condition characterized by presentation with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in patients who do not necessarily fit the typical characteristics of autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
