A new study published yesterday in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology advocates for a reclassification of adult-onset diabetes (or diabetes mellitus) into five separate categories, BBC reports. This novel classification system would replace the current one everyone is familiar with and which has been deemed too simplistic.
Study authors call it a “refined classification” of the disease and argue that cases of adult diabetes could be more efficiently split into five clusters, each with “significantly different patient characteristics and risk of diabetic complications.”
Until now, diabetes mellitus, characterized by high blood glucose (or blood sugar) levels, has been largely divided into type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Aside from the main two types of diabetes, there are also a few less common diseases, such as LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes in adults), MODY (maturity onset diabetes of the young, a type of hereditary diabetes), gestational diabetes (diabetes associated with pregnancy), and secondary diabetes (that results as a consequence of another medical condition).
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