September 18, 2025 3:07 PM
Type 5 diabetes: Why the malnutrition-related condition needs to be formally recognised?
Global experts have called for the formal recognition of Type-5 diabetes, a malnutrition-related form of the disease, to develop diagnostic criteria and improve management for an estimated six million people in India and 25 million worldwide, according to a new article in The Lancet Global Health. Type-5 diabetes typically affects lean, malnourished teenagers and young adults in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), primarily in Asia and Africa. “It is more common in low-resource setting...