Question:
What is Terminal Onset Diabetes?
Would someone please post a short summary of what this is? My
understanding is limited to say the least, and I can find zero
resources on the net which leads me to believe this is a colloquialism
for some other form of the onset of diabetes.
Answer:
Hi, Jim. I did the best search I know how to do, and also came
up with nothing -- which figures, since "terminal onset" would
suggest diabetes that developed when somebody was already dying,
in which case it wouldn't make enough of a difference in the
ultimate outcome to even have a specific term coined for it, I
shouldn't think. But there IS juvenile onset diabetes, and also
adult onset diabetes. Those terms are both falling out of favor,
and are being replaced with more accurate terms, but they're
still in circulation. I'm probably not the only person who would
be interested in learning where you encountered that term.
Do you have diabetes? If so, how are you doing?
