INS and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a well-recognized subtype under immune-mediated type 1 diabetes (1), the pancreatic β cells are destructed by cellular-mediated autoimmunity with autoantibodies to insulin, to GAD (GADA), to the tyrosine phosphatases IA2 and IA2β, to zinc transporter 8 (ZnT8As) as autoimmune markers.