A new diagnostic test based on saliva sample and a personal gadget is going to make the determination of diabetes-type faster and simpler. This is going to be beneficial for people dwelling in remote areas where they do not have easy access to a healthcare facility. The key to proper anti-diabetic treatment lies in identifying the type of diabetes in the patient. In general, people with diabetes either have a congenital absence of insulin (type 1 diabetes, T1D) or they have too little insulin or cannot use insulin effectively (type 2 diabetes, T2D).
Type 2 diabetes mostly occur at adult age and can be controlled by exercise, healthy diets and lifestyle management. Type 1 diabetes requires mandatory administration of insulin. With increasing obesity and other associated lifestyle oriented disease complication, the line between these two types of diabetes is getting thinner with time.…
