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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 03:52 AM Mar 2018

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43246261

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent, BBC News

6 hours ago

Scientists say diabetes is five separate diseases, and treatment could be tailored to each form. Diabetes - or uncontrolled blood sugar levels - is normally split into type 1 and type 2. But researchers in Sweden and Finland think the more complicated picture they have uncovered will usher in an era of personalised medicine for diabetes.
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The study, by Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, looked at 14,775 patients including a detailed analysis of their blood.

The results, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, showed the patients could be separated into five distinct clusters.
◾Cluster 1 - severe autoimmune diabetes is broadly the same as the classical type 1 - it hit people when they were young, seemingly healthy and an immune disease left them unable to produce insulin
◾Cluster 2 - severe insulin-deficient diabetes patients initially looked very similar to those in cluster 1 - they were young, had a healthy weight and struggled to make insulin, but the immune system was not at fault
◾Cluster 3 - severe insulin-resistant diabetes patients were generally overweight and making insulin but their body was no longer responding to it
◾Cluster 4 - mild obesity-related diabetes was mainly seen in people who were very overweight but metabolically much closer to normal than those in cluster 3
◾Cluster 5 - mild age-related diabetes patients developed symptoms when they were significantly older than in other groups and their disease tended to be milder
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Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests (Original Post) nitpicker Mar 2018 OP
And, maybe, a similar approach will be used at Alzheimer's question everything Mar 2018 #1
That's some of the thinking about cancer BadgerKid Mar 2018 #2

question everything

(47,264 posts)
1. And, maybe, a similar approach will be used at Alzheimer's
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:18 PM
Mar 2018

Like high blood pressure - same symptoms different causes and different treatments.

BadgerKid

(4,541 posts)
2. That's some of the thinking about cancer
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 05:46 AM
Mar 2018

as in, "cancer" can be comprised of multiple genetic alterations. Multiple drugs would address different aspects.

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