Type 1 Diabetes - What Are the Current Principles of Diagnosis?

An elevated GAD 65 would make us think that it's more of a type 1 type diabetes. I usually take a weight-based approach regimen when starting out insulin. If your clinical suspicion, even before labs come back, is high enough that this person has type 1 diabetes,. Then you're thinking about the pathophysiology, which is the destruction of beta cells in the pancreas and no insulin.