Table 2 Diabetes therapy in patients with LADA and T2D.

From: Identification and phenotypic characterization of patients with LADA in a population of southeast Mexico

Treatment

LADA

T2D

χ2, p

t, p

n = 59, %

Dose

n = 318, %

Dose

Insulin

47 (79.7%)

37.3 ± 18.7 IU/day

199 (62.6%)

39.8 ± 23.7

IU/day

6.4, < 0.01

− 0.7, 0.5

Short-Acting insulin

12 (25.5%)

15.0 ± 6.2

IU/day

89 (44.7%)

20.2 ± 14.6

IU/day

5.8, 0.01

− 2.2, 0.03

Intermediate-Acting insulin

18 (38.3%)

35.3 ± 11.4 IU/day

80 (40.2%)

35.0 ± 14.7

IU/day

0.1, 0.47

0.1, 0.94

Long-Acting insulin

33 (70.2%)

28.4 ± 9.8

IU/day

102 (51.3%)

26.4 ± 11.7

IU/day

5.5, 0.01

0.9, 0.36

Metformin

57 (96.6%)

1828.1 ± 541.2

mg/day

269 (84.6%)

1770.4 ± 564.3 mg/day

6.2, < 0.01

0.7, 0.48

Glibenclamide

28 (47.5%)

9.6 ± 3.3

mg/day

134 (42.1%)

11.0 ± 4.1 mg/day

0.6, 0.27

− 1.7, 0.09

Linagliptin

7 (11.9%)

5.7 ± 1.9

mg/day

88 (27.7%)

5.4 ± 1.6

mg/day

6.6, < 0.01

0.5, 0.61

  1. Significant values are in [bold].
  2. LADA, Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults; T2D, Type 2 diabetes. We used Chi-squared test for categorical variables, and t-Student test for numerical data. A p-value < 0.05 was considered as significant.