Diabetes Sub Types

[Amity Island]

Usually, a diabetes diagnosis begins with a label: either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Patients with diabetes are typically assigned one of these two types of diabetes and then treated accordingly.

Diabetes experts are now pushing for a more specific diagnosis for those with diabetes, in addition to either being Type 1 or Type 2: a subtype.

The idea of diabetes subtypes is not a new concept. In 1997, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) released an Etiologic Classification of Diabetes, listing over 40 syndromes, diseases, or genetic abnormalities that can contribute to the development of diabetes.

Your diabetes diagnosis might get much more specific in the future - Comprehensive Diabetes Center | UAB

www.uab.edu

 

[Docb]

I would pick a few holes in some of the detail but a step in the right direction in my view.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I think a bit more precision over classification could be very helpful - especially when it comes to blanket rules about whether or not any particular education course or type of technology would be helpful.

People given a diagnosis with T2 especially seem to struggle with this - because it seems to be a broad term that can cover very different types of diabetes (but which are all treated in health-economics terms as if they were identical)