Genetic risk score may identify insulin-deficient patients

[Northerner]

In adults with diabetes, a type 1 diabetes genetic risk score may be valuable in distinguishing between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as identifying patients who are likely to develop severe insulin deficiency, according to recent findings.

“This will be an important addition to correctly classifying individuals with diabetes and will improve the number of people who get the right treatment when they are first diagnosed, especially people who sit in the overlap between type 1 and type 2 diabetes,” Richard A. Oram, PhD, from the University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom, said in a press release. “There is often no going back once insulin treatment starts. This may save people with type 2 diabetes from being treated with insulin unnecessarily, but also stop the rare but serious occurrence of people with type 1 being initially treated with tablets inappropriately and running of the risk of severe illness.”

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[trophywench]

Interesting looking at the article concerning genetic testing for T1. They catechised my mother when she visited me in hospital after diagnosis - even though I was married and no longer living with my parents at home etc. Apparently I was full term and weighed around 6.5lbs, which was light as most babies were between 7.5 and 8.5 lbs at that time.