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What are the different types of diabetes and how are they different?
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What are the different types of diabetes and how are they different?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the different types of diabetes and how they vary in presentation and needs.

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So if you're looking at other forms of diabetes, then they would be gestational diabetes, which essentially means during pregnancy is quite common in certain group. But if you develop gestational diabetes, then your overall risk of developing type 2 diabetes is 10% more over the next 10 years. And it's not uncommon for certain ethnicities to develop gestational diabetes. Then the other type would be steroid-induced diabetes or hydrogenic diabetes, which means that you take medications that would impair your glucose tolerance. Maturity-onset diabetes, the maturity-onset diabetes of young, which can happen within the families where you have genetic mutations that would predispose you to having diabetes. And the most of the treatment for these patients is with tablets, not with insulin, and genetic testing is required. And also, there is a form of diabetes where you can have have latent autoimmune disease of adults where you can have antibodies, which would predispose you to have features of type 1 diabetes in all the population. So they can come in different mixes, but then latent autoimmune diabetes of adults within five years can lead to full-blown type 1 diabetes. So there are various types and then if you, different maturity onset of diabetes, there's another 42 different types on top of that, so it breaks down based on the genetics.

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