NICE has recently updated its guidelines on the diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in adults. Dr Anne Kilvert Emma Wilmot here summarise new recommendations consider implications for people with diabetes, health care professionals commissioners.

Monogenic forms of diabetes mellitus cover a heterogeneous group of diabetes which are uniformly caused by a single gene mutation and are characterised by impaired insulin secretion of the pancreatic beta cell. It is estimated that they account for up to 5% of all cases of diabetes mellitus, which are often not diagnosed or are misclassified as type 1 or 2 diabetes. However, accurate diagnosis ...

The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its complications are increasing. Like other complications, most of the diabetes patients have gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms but in majority of cases GI complications are under diagnosed and not treated properly, resulting in impairment of the quality of daily life. GI system including liver and pancreas are involved in diabetes mellitus. ...

BACKGROUND There is an increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Absence of known diabetes autoimmune markers is sometimes required to confirm the diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To identify clinical and autoimmune characteristics of type 2 diabetes in a pediatric population. METHOD We report an analysis of 48 children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, compared with...

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Precision medicine, which optimizes diagnosis and treatment of diseases according to individualized characteristics, is becoming a reality in the field diabetes, especially for monogenic diabetes. Maturityonset diabetes young (MODY) type characterized by early onset, relative non-obesity, non-insulin dependence, autosomal dominant inheritance. With trend toward precision medicine improvement ge...