In the early 1950s, British physician Philip Hugh-Jones was flummoxed by 13 patients who showed up at the diabetes clinic he ran near Kingston, Jamaica. At the time, researchers broadly recognized two ...

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Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) 5 is a rare genetic form of diabetes caused by mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-beta (HNF1B) gene. MODY 5 accounts for approximately 2–6% of all ...

Nearly 39 million American adults are currently living with diabetes, the latest data shows — and between 90% and 95% of those cases are type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, although it only makes up 5% ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease - one ...

An unusual type of diabetes linked to malnutrition now has a name. Scientists are calling for wider recognition of the newly classified Type 5... In the early 1950s, British physician Philip ...