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Schaefer Boeder

Board-certified endocrinologist, Medical Director at Paradigm Clinical Research, and Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego specializing in diabetes, obesity, and cardiorenal-metabolic disease.

Aug 10, 2026

19:58
Well, what populations of patients would raise your suspicion for having latent onset diabetes in adults?
20:07
Yeah, well, first of all, to have LADA, you have to be an adult.
20:10
So, you know, I don't see pediatrics.
20:12
Do you have to act like an adult? No, you don't.
20:15
You can act like a child, and that's fine.
20:17
But, you know, the ratio of... risk for type two diabetes and autoimmune diabetes or type one diabetes does shift over the lifespan, right? If you're one years old, you theoretically can get type two diabetes and children certainly do get type two diabetes.
20:35
But if you get diabetes at one, you're very likely to have type one.
23:31
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