Karachi: New research published in Diabetologia (journal of European Association for Study of Diabetes [EASD]) is first study to show that childhood obesity is associated with an increased risk of four of five recently proposed subtypes of adult-onset diabetes.

Study is by Yuxia Wei, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and colleagues. In 2018, ground-breaking study identified five novel subtypes of adult-onset diabetes, severe autoimmune diabetes (SAID, including type 1 diabetes and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults [LADA]) and four subtypes of type 2 diabetes (severe insulin-deficient diabetes [SIDD], severe insulin-resistant diabetes [SIRD], mild obesity-related diabetes [MOD] and mild age-related diabetes [MARD]).

Published in The Daily National Courier, April, 03 2023

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