Update on diagnosis, pathogenesis and management of ketosis prone type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ketosisprone diabetes or flatbush diabetes has been widely recognized as a clinical entity since 1984. It is now being recognized as an important clinical entity in subsaharan africans, asian and indian populations, and hispanic populations. Ketoneprone diabetes kpd is considered one of the atypical diabetes syndromes because its presentation can lead to misdiagnosis of the type of diabetes. Ketosisprone diabetes kpd comprises a group of diabetes syndromes characterized by severe beta cell dysfunction manifested by presentation with dka or unprovoked ketosis and a variable clinical course. Ketosisprone diabetes kpd is characterized by presentation with diabetic ketoacidosis dka in persons who do not fit traditional categories of types 1 or 2 diabetes 1 5. Ketosisprone type 2 diabetes kpd has been characterized as diabetes with severe insulin deficiency at diagnosis associated with ketosis or ketoacidosis without a precipitating cause. The acute abnormalities of ketosisprone diabetes have been examined using intravenous glucose tolerance tests, oral glucose tolerance tests, and intravenous glucagon stimulation tests 3, 6, 11.
The term ketosisprone diabetes was introduced in 2002 by. The beta cells of patients with severe hyperglycemia with or without ketosis have lost the ability of exogenous or endogenous glucose to stimulate. Ketosisprone type 2 diabetes flatbush diabetes carries features of both classical type 1 and type 2 diabetes and is highly prevalent in. These syndromes do not fit the traditional categories of diabetes defined by the american diabetes association ada. Fasting plasma fatty acids, acylcarnitines, and amino acids were quantified in 20 kpd patients compared with 19. Ketosisprone diabetes kpd is becoming a more widely recognised form of diabetes. Major questions remain as to its pathogenesis and whether.
Ketosisprone type 2 diabetes diabetes care american. Patients with ketosisprone type 2 diabetes were once described as having atypical diabetes. Most of the early clinical studies focused on african american or afrocaribbean individuals. Table table2 2 summarizes the data on insulin secretion in ketosisprone diabetes. This variant of type 2 diabetes has been referred to in the literature as idiopathic type 1 diabetes, atypical diabetes, flatbush diabetes, diabetes type 1 12 somewhere between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and more recently as ketosisprone type 2 diabetes. One objective for classification of a disease is the. Prolongation of nearnormoglycemic remission in black niddm subjects with chronic lowdose sulfonylurea treatment. Syndromes of ketosisprone diabetes mellitus uptodate. Diabetic ketoacidosis dka is the most serious hyperglycemic emer gency in. Pdf a case of ketosisprone type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis dka who lack the classic phenotype of autoimmune type 1 diabetes have become. We have defined four subgroups of kpd based on presence or absence of. Maturityonset diabetes of youth in black americans. We combined metabolomics with targeted kinetic measurements to investigate its pathophysiology. Evaluation and management of ketosisprone diabetes taylor. Ketosisprone diabetesa new subgroup of patients with atypical. Syndromes of ketosisprone diabetes mellitus endocrine.
Ketosisprone type 2 diabetes time to revise the classi. Ketosisprone diabetes kpd is a widespread, emerging. Dka is reported to be responsible for 100,000 hospital admissions per year in the u. Earlier reports used the terms atypical diabetes, flatbush diabetes, diabetes type 1b, and ketosisprone type 2 diabetes mellitus to. Ketosisprone diabetes kpd is a widespread, emerging, heterogeneous syndrome characterized by patients who present with diabetic ketoacidosis or unprovoked ketosis but do not necessarily have the typical phenotype of autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
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