This post is an excerpt from the “Health Topic” segment of the 731st HF Live Review.
*HF Live Review: A livestream session for patients participating in BM Korean Internal Medicine Clinic programs.
When people talk about diabetes, they are usually referring to Type 2 diabetes.
But in fact, diabetes comes in several forms.
Let’s take a closer look at how diabetes is classified and the different types that exist.
● What is Diabetes?
- A group of symptoms and signs caused by metabolic abnormalities in glucose metabolism.
- The hallmark is hyperglycemia (but note: hyperglycemia is a result, not a cause).
● Proper classification by cause
- Helps enable personalized diabetes care.
● Most widely used global classification of diabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Specific types due to other causes (e.g., monogenic diabetes syndromes, diseases of the exocrine pancreas)
- Gestational Diabetes
<References>
Committee ADAPP, ElSayed NA, Aleppo G, et al. 2. Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2024. Diabetes Care. 2023;47(Supplement_1):S20-S42. doi:10.2337/dc24-s002
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