Diabetes may actually be of five types and not just type 1 (10%) and type 2 (85-90% as people know it as it has been described one with insulin deficiency in childhood or young and another with age and obesity as maturity-onset diabetes,as suggests new research published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. Recasting adult-onset diabetes into five types could help better tailor early treatment for patients, said the research by scientists from Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland. The five types found had different characteristics, with different complications, and called for different treatment needs.
According to WHO estimates, India has about 70 million diabetics and is rapidly moving towards becoming the diabetes capital of the world, even though rates of the disease are increasing across the world. While type 1 diabetes…
