Type 5 Diabetes May Affect Up To 25 Million People. Critics Say The Evidence Is Still Thin

Lean, Young Patients Who Fit Neither Type 1 Nor Type 2 Now Have A Diagnosis In the early 1950s, a British physician running a diabetes clinic near Kingston, Jamaica, met 13 patients who fit neither of the two diabetes types doctors recognized at the time, NPR reported. They were young and thin, according to an NPR report,…
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