Ethnic differences emerged among subgroups of diabetes characteristics, a new study found.
In an analysis of nearly 1,300 people with diabetes, five distinct types of diabetes cases were identified — older age at diabetes onset (43%), severe hyperglycemia (26%), severe obesity (20%), younger age at onset (1%), and requiring insulin medication use (9%), reported Michael Bancks, PhD, MPH, of Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and colleagues.
