The world has recognized a new kind of diabetes – fifth
Fifth -type diabetes occurs due to malnutrition
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The International Diabetic Federation has recognized the existence of another type of diabetes – the fifth type. It occurs due to malnutrition.
He was recognized at the World Congress in Thailand 8 April, reports The Independent.
The disease has been studied for many years. The first studies of this type of diabetes began in the mid -twentieth century, but then it was incorrectly qualified as diabetes of the first or second type.
As you know, sugar the first type of diabetes It is the result of autoimmune destruction of cells that produce insulin. At second type diabetes There is insulin resistance – the inability of the body to use the insulin it produces.
Instead, sugar Fifth type diabetes different from both previous ones. In this case, the body does not produce enough insulin due to impaired pancreatic development, which is caused by malnutrition and exhaustion.
”Patients with this type of diabetes are mostly young and thin. At first it was thought that this is indicated by diabetes of the first type, which can be controlled by insulin injection to regulate blood sugar.
But insulin did not help these patients, and in some cases provoked a dangerously low fall in blood sugar« , – she said Medicalxpress Professor Meredith Hawkins is the director of the Global Diabetes Institute at Albert Einstein, who researched this type of diabetes.
As Note On the website of the International Diabetic Federation, diabetes of the fifth type affects from 20 to 25 million people worldwide. It is mainly about Asia and Africa.
How to treat it will be decided by a working group, which was announced at the congress.
”For too long, this condition remained unrecognized, affecting millions of people and depriving them of access to care.
With the launch of the working group on the study of diabetes of the fifth type, we take decisive steps to fix it. This applies to justice, science and saving lives« , – said President of the International Diabetic Federation Peter Schwartz.
The group will have to develop official diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for fifth type diabetes over the next two years.
We will remind, we used to toldthat over 30 years the number of diabetes in the world has doubled. It exceeds 800 million.
