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Fulminant type 1 diabetes—is it virus-induced diabetes?

✍ Scribed by Akihisa Imagawa

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
30 KB
Volume
83
Category
Article
ISSN
0146-6615

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✦ Synopsis

Fulminant type 1 diabetes is characterized by an extremely rapid onset and an absence of islet-related autoantibodies and belongs to type 1B diabetes. It accounts for approximately 20% of acute onset of type 1 diabetes in Japan [Imagawa et al., 2000;Hanafusa and Imagawa, 2007]. The contribution of viral infection to beta cell destruction in this subtype is suggested by the following facts:

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