C-Peptide Can Help Diagnose Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

"C-peptide can facilitate the diagnosis of fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), according to the results of a study published in the August issue of Diabetes Care.

'The key issue for the diagnosis in this new subtype of type 1 diabetes is absence of autoantibodies against islet cells,' write Shoichiro Tanaka, MD, from the University of Yamanashi in Japan, and colleagues. 'However, the measurement of pancreatic autoantibodies including GADAb, ICA, IA-2Ab, and IAA is in the process of being standardized, and these autoantibodies can be measured in a limited number of laboratories.'"