After years of controversy, scientists, in a consensus meeting in India last year, proposed Type 5 diabetes as the name for a form of diabetes distinct from the common Type 1 and Type 2. Their ...

Malnutrition-related diabetes, distinct from both type 1 and type 2, has now been officially recognized and named “type 5 diabetes.” The vote to endorse the category took place on April 8, during the ...

It has for long been conjectured to be a malnutrition-related form of diabetes, but has only now been officially recognized as “Type 5” diabetes at the World Diabetes Congress in Bangkok last week.