Type 1 and 2 diabetes are common conditions, but other types of diabetes are less known. Despite different causes, the results are the same: your body cannot produce enough or properly use insulin ...

1 Most of these patients (85%) have type 2 diabetes mellitus. Type 1 generally starts in the young as an autoimmune mediated disease of pancreatic dysfunction, and requires lifelong parenteral insulin ...

Diabetes mellitus ... 2 diabetes. It occurs when the cells in your body don’t respond to insulin the way they should. This can lead to type 2 diabetes down the road. Experts suggest that more ...

These and other lines of evidence were used to divide diabetes mellitus into five distinct ... rather than etiology. The terms type 1 and type 2 diabetes are retained, with arabic numerals being ...

As part of our Masterclass series, GP specialist in diabetes Dr Elizabeth Martin explains the key points in prevention, ...

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases ... categories (discussed in greater detail below). In one category (type 1 diabetes), the cause is an absolute deficiency of insulin secretion.