Researchers Propose New Way To Classify Adult-Onset Diabetes.

reports researchers outlined a new classification system for adult-onset diabetes which would eschew “the usual type 1 and type 2 designation in favor of five subgroups” that distinguish between “unique disease progression and risk for related complications.” The authors from Lund University in Sweden wrote in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, “[T]he results of our study suggest that this new clustering of patients with adult-onset diabetes is superior to the classic diabetes classification because it identifies patients at high risk of diabetic complications at diagnosis and provides information about underlying disease mechanisms, thereby guiding choice of therapy.” https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/diabetes/71477