{"id":214045,"date":"2025-05-14T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-distinct-new-form-of-diabetes-has-been-officially-recognized"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:24:40","slug":"a-distinct-new-form-of-diabetes-has-been-officially-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-distinct-new-form-of-diabetes-has-been-officially-recognized","title":{"rendered":"A Distinct New Form of Diabetes Has Been Officially Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-distinct-new-form-of-diabetes-has-been-officially-recognized.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/malnutrition-related-diabetes-officially-named-type-5-2025a10008pd\">just been recognised<\/a> as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation. Despite the name, there are more than a dozen different types of diabetes. The classification isn\u2019t quite as tidy as the numbering suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clear guide to the different types, including some that you may not have heard of, along with information about what causes them and how they are treated.<\/p>\n<p>Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body\u2019s immune system mistakenly attacking the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. This autoimmune reaction can occur at any age, from infancy through to old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 5 diabetes has just been recognised as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation. Despite the name, there are more than a dozen different types of diabetes. The classification isn\u2019t quite as tidy as the numbering suggests. Here\u2019s a clear guide to the different types, including some that you may not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}