A new type of diabetes was recognized – | Iranian and world news

The International Federation of Diabetes (IDF) has announced the category after investigating Mardit Hawkins, the founder of the Diabetes Institute at the Albert Einstein Medical College, according to .

Hawkins says: Malnutrition -related diabetes has historically been slightly diagnosed and not properly understood. IDF recognition of type 2 diabetes is an important step in informing a health challenge that is difficult for many people.

The diabetic caused by obesity is known as type 2 diabetes, and most of it is found in developing countries. But, according to Hawkins, young people with a type of diabetes are becoming increasingly due to the large volume of food, but rather a low nutritional or malnutrition. It is estimated that 5 to 5 million people are affected worldwide, especially in Asia and Africa.

According to him, doctors still do not know that these patients do not survive more than a year after diagnosis.

Diabetes related to malnutrition was first described five years ago, and many subsequent studies recorded many examples in poor countries. In response to these reports, the World Health Organization recognized diabetes due to nutrition as a distinct type of disease. But the organization eliminated it in the year 6 due to lack of further studies and backup evidence.

Hawkins first became aware of malnutrition -related diabetes for the first time in the year 9 when teaching at World Health Summit. “Doctors in different countries told me many patients with an unusual type of diabetes,” he said. These were young and lean patients who indicated that they had type 1 diabetes that were controlled by insulin injection. But insulin did not help these patients and in some cases led to a dangerous decrease in blood sugar. It also did not appear to be these patients with type 2 diabetes, which is associated with obesity. That had confused them.

Hawkins and his colleagues at Chrisian Medical College in India published a study in the journal Diabetes Care in the year 5 that showed that diabetes related to malnutrition was fundamentally different from type 1 and two diabetes.

Previous findings also indicated that diabetes was due to malnutrition due to insulin resistance. But it was found that people with this type of diabetes had a deep defect in the capacity of insulin secretion, which was previously unknown. This revolutionary finding has made the researchers’ thinking about the disease and its treatment.