<sod>The Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus does not recognize the term LADA; rather, it includes LADA in the definition of [[Type 1 diabetes|Type 1 autoimmune diabetes]]: "Type 1 diabetes results from a cellular-mediated autoimmune destruction of the beta-cells of the pancreas. In type 1 diabetes, the rate of beta-cell destruction is quite variable, being rapid in some individuals (mainly infants and children) and slow in others (mainly adults).”  <ref name="pmid17192378">{{cite journal |author= |title=Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus |journal=Diabetes Care |volume=30 Suppl 1 |issue= |pages=S42–7 |date=January 2007 |pmid=17192378 |doi=10.2337/dc07-S042 |url=http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/suppl_1/S42.full |last1= American Diabetes |first1= Association}}</ref> The National Institutes of Health (NIDDK) defines LADA as "a condition in which Type 1 diabetes develops in adults".{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Also, many physicians or diabetes specialists don't recognize LADA or probably don't know the condition actually exists, and so LADA is misdiagnosed as or mistaken for Type 2 diabetes highly often.<eod>
<sod>The Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus does not recognize the term LADA; rather, it includes LADA in the definition of [[Type 1 diabetes|Type 1 autoimmune diabetes]]: "Type 1 diabetes results from a cellular-mediated autoimmune destruction of the beta-cells of the pancreas. In type 1 diabetes, the rate of beta-cell destruction is quite variable, being rapid in some individuals (mainly infants and children) and slow in others (mainly adults).”  <ref name="pmid17192378">{{cite journal |author= |title=Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus |journal=Diabetes Care |volume=30 Suppl 1 |issue= |pages=S42–7 |date=January 2007 |pmid=17192378 |doi=10.2337/dc07-S042 |url=http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/suppl_1/S42.full |last1= American Diabetes |first1= Association}}</ref> The National Institutes of Health (NIDDK) defines LADA as "a condition in which Type 1 diabetes develops in adults".{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}<eod>