{"id":243707,"date":"2026-09-06T01:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/type-1-diabetes-may-actually-be-two-different-diseases-massive-international-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:02:48","slug":"type-1-diabetes-may-actually-be-two-different-diseases-massive-international-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/type-1-diabetes-may-actually-be-two-different-diseases-massive-international-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Type 1 Diabetes May Actually Be Two Different Diseases, Massive International Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/type-1-diabetes-may-actually-be-two-different-diseases-massive-international-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Identifying distinctive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-distinct-new-form-of-diabetes-is-officially-recognized\">types of conditions<\/a> like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a> is helpful in two ways.<\/p>\n<p>It means treatments can be personalized more precisely to individuals, and gives researchers a better idea of how to make those treatments more effective going forward.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/type-1-diabetes-may-be-triggered-by-bacterial-infections-scientists-find\">type 1 diabetes<\/a>, there are two genetic patterns called HLA-DR3 and HLA-DR4 that are associated with a higher risk of the disease. However, while the end result is the same (type 1 diabetes), the early signs differ between the two patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying distinctive types of conditions like diabetes is helpful in two ways. It means treatments can be personalized more precisely to individuals, and gives researchers a better idea of how to make those treatments more effective going forward. When it comes to type 1 diabetes, there are two genetic patterns called HLA-DR3 and HLA-DR4 that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243707","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}