In the nineteenth century, to categorise different types of diabetes, French physician Etienne Lancereaux distinguished between diabete maigre (thin diabetes) and diabete gras (fat diabetes) (Tattersall 2009).
The emergence of different treatments for different types of diabetes, reactualised by the latest new group of anti-diabetic drugs, the incretin-based therapies and by treatments aiming for prevention, relief and cure of autoimmune diabetes, all put new focus on blood-cell function (4, 5, 38), which is still best estimated by C-peptide (39).
The American Diabetes Association has even more information about the different types of diabetes and additional resources.
We examined the relationship between periodontal disease and different types of diabetes in pregnant and nonpregnant women.
The risk of any or referable retinopathy varied greatly between different types of diabetes treatment.
To date, there are no gold standard definitions of different types of diabetes presenting in youth.
Many people in the field compare Dr. Butler to Dr. Steven Nissen, the well-known Cleveland Clinic cardiologist whose warnings about Avandia, a different type of diabetes drug, led to its being banned in Europe and highly restricted in the United States.
Instead of pitting one drug against another, ACCORD used just about every different type of diabetes med on the market, in combination.
Of the total sample (n=3,960; 100%), 1,573 (40%) self-reported having type 1 diabetes, 2,108 (53%) type 2 diabetes, and 702(2%) a different type of diabetes or a related condition, e.g. LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults), MODY (Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young), pre-diabetes, diabetes in remission.
To improve on this situation, we report here accurate prevalence estimates of different types of childhood diabetes based on extensive epidemiological and genetic data from three major academic paediatric diabetes clinics [ 4, 5].
Among the different types of MODY diabetes described thus far, each of which is due to a different gene mutation (HNF4A, GCK, HNF1A, IPF1, HNF1B, NEUROD1, CEL) [2], [3] the GCK MODY form is provoked by mutations in the glucokinase gene (GCK; MIM 138079).
