{"id":32239,"date":"2025-04-17T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32239"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:11:50","slug":"type-5-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/type-5-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 5 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Type 5 Diabetes Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Type 5 diabetes has been officially recognised as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).<\/p>\n<h2>What is Type 5 Diabetes?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type 5 diabetes<\/strong> primarily affects <strong>lean, undernourished teenagers and young adults<\/strong> in <strong>low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by <strong>malnutrition-induced reduction in insulin production<\/strong>, unlike <strong>Type 2 diabetes<\/strong>, which involves <strong>insulin resistance<\/strong> with continuing insulin secretion.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>Type 5<\/strong>, the <strong>pancreatic beta cells<\/strong> function abnormally, resulting in <strong>severely reduced insulin secretion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This form of diabetes has long been <strong>neglected in medical research<\/strong> and often <strong>misdiagnosed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Historical Background<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The condition was <strong>first reported in Jamaica<\/strong> in <strong>1955<\/strong> under the term <strong>J-type diabetes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1985<\/strong>, the <strong>World Health Organization (WHO)<\/strong> named it <strong>\u201cmalnutrition-related diabetes mellitus\u201d<\/strong>, but this was removed in <strong>1999<\/strong> due to <strong>lack of causal evidence<\/strong> linking malnutrition to diabetes.<\/li>\n<li>Despite this, similar cases were later reported in <strong>India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Korea<\/strong>, mostly in the <strong>Global South<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The condition is estimated to affect <strong>about 25 million people globally<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Clinical Markers of Type 5 Diabetes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No autoimmune or genetic cause<\/strong> is associated with this condition.<\/li>\n<li>Patients have <strong>very low BMI (&lt;18.5 kg\/m\u00b2)<\/strong>, much lower than typical Type 2 diabetic patients.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Insulin levels are extremely low<\/strong>, significantly <strong>below Type 2 diabetes<\/strong> and <strong>slightly above Type 1 diabetes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Body fat percentage<\/strong> is substantially lower than in Type 2 patients.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dietary intake<\/strong> of <strong>protein, fibre, and micronutrients<\/strong> is notably inadequate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-health\/type-5-diabetes-recognised-as-distinct-form-of-disease-why-is-this-significant-9948433\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 5 diabetes primarily affects lean, undernourished teenagers and young adults in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,157,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-type-5-diabetes","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}