Ricerc@Sapienza

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the most frequent complication of pregnancy; around 10% of GDM cases may be determined by autoimmunity, and our aims were to establish the role of autoimmunity in a population of Sardinian women affected by GDM, to find predictive factors for autoimmune GDM, and to determine type 1 diabetes (T1D) auto-antibodies (Aabs) together with glucose tolerance after a mean 21.2 months of follow-up.

To the Editor
The paper by Jones et al. in which they studied the response of a
cohort of 19 patients with adult-onset diabetes who were glutamic
acid decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA) positive, most with very
low levels of C peptide and multiple autoantibodies, is consistent with
published results studying GLP-1 agonists in patients with established
type 1 diabetes who show little by way of a beneficial response.1,2
Importantly, they note that those with GADA, who were not on insulin