Diabetes comes in many shapes and forms. It is important for the general physician to
recognise when clinical characteristics, response to treatment and associated features …

Diabetes mellitus is a common condition which all clinicians will encounter in their clinical
practice. The most common form is type 2 diabetes followed by type 1 diabetes. However …

In medical school, we learned how to classify diabetes according to different clinical
characteristics. However, at the dawn of the precision medicine era, it is clear that today's …

The distinction between type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus should be straight forward,
based on age, body habitus, and type of presentation. A specific diagnosis is important since …

What type of diabetes does my patient have and is it relevant? Page 1 474 CME OCTOBER
2010 Vol.28 No.10 Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterised by …

In the early 1990s the terminology used to classify diabetes mellitus was based mainly on
the approach used to treat the condition;“insulin dependent” or “non‐insulin‐dependent” …

This is a comment on" Will new diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus change phenotype of
patients with diabetes? Reanalysis of European epidemiological data. DECODE Study …

Does your patient have monogenic diabetes or some other form of diabetes? In clinical
practice, this may not be immediately apparent–and some cases can present a diagnostic …

Background 11 patients were referred to our Molecular Genetics Department at the Royal
Devon and Exeter Hospital between 2000-2012 with a physician's diagnosis of remitting …

Rarely does the diagnosis of diabetes go beyond the broad classification of type 1 or type 2
diabetes. This is usually based on simple clinical criteria such as BMI, age of diagnosis and …