You can get diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at any age. It used to be called "juvenile diabetes" because they thought it only hit children, but that was proven t

You can get diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at any age. It used to be called "juvenile diabetes" because they thought it only hit children, but that was proven to be false. We don't know if it's different causes in adults vs children, because we don't really know the cause. The mechanism is the same though: the immune system destroying the beta cells in the pancreas.