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A group of scientists is warning that doctors need to be more aware of a type of diabetes that has been newly studied in recent years, which they say is poorly understood by many doctors and commonly misdiagnosed. As a result, patients with this form of diabetes, called Type 3c, often aren\u2019t getting the treatment they need.<\/p>\n

By way of review: Type 1 diabetes, which often shows up in childhood or early adulthood, is an autoimmune disease affecting the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes, which has generally been associated with middle-aged and older people, is caused by the body\u2019s inability to use insulin properly.<\/p>\n

Type 3c, described in a new study in the journal Diabetes Care<\/a>, <\/em>stems from damage to a previously healthy pancreas, caused by such health issues as pancreatitis, a pancreatic tumor, cystic fibrosis or trauma. As a result, the pancreas no longer produces adequate amounts of insulin, digestive enzymes and other hormones. According to some earlier journal articles on Type 3c, most of the cases occur among people with chronic pancreatitis.<\/p>\n

Yet, according to the study by a group of British scientists, doctors routinely mistake Type 3c diabetes for Type 2. Writing in the website The Conversation<\/a>, one of the researchers said the study found that only 3 percent of people with Type 3c diabetes were correctly diagnosed.<\/p>\n

The mistake can be mean they\u2019re not getting the treatment they need.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall studies in specialist centers have found that most people with Type 3c diabetes need insulin and, unlike other diabetes types, can also benefit from taking digestive enzymes with food,\u201d wrote the researcher, Andrew McGovern at the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n

In order to find patients with Type 3c, the researchers looked at close to 38,000 adult patients who had been newly diagnosed with diabetes, and examined their records to see which ones had experienced some kind of pancreatic disease such as pancreatitis before developing diabetes. The number came to 559\u2014more than the number of Type 1 diabetes cases. Of these, all but a small number of patients had been wrongly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and weren\u2019t getting enough insulin for their needs.<\/p>\n

Type 3 diabetes \u201chas worse glycemic control and a markedly greater requirement for insulin,\u201d the journal article concluded.<\/p>\n

How is this mistake made? Possibly one cause is that, like Type 2 diabetes, Type 3c typically occurs later in life. The study found that the median age for Type 3c was 59. And according to McGovern\u2019s article in The Conversationalist, there can be a delay between the earlier pancreatic problem and the later diabetes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that the onset of Type 3c diabetes could occur long after onset of pancreas injury,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn many cases, more than a decade later. This long lag may be one of the reasons the two events are not often thought of as being linked, and the diagnosis of Type 3c diabetes is being overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that medical experts have raised the issue of whether Type 3c diabetes is receiving the attention it needs.<\/p>\n

A 2013 article in the European Journal of Internal Medicine<\/a> estimated the prevalence of Type 3c at 5 to 10 percent of all people with diabetes in Western populations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts prevalence and clinical importance have been underestimated and underappreciated so far,\u201d the authors wrote. In addition to managing a more complicated need for insulin, they said, doctors should routinely test for other problems, such as vitamin D deficiency.<\/p>\n

And a 2016 article in the journal Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy<\/em> <\/a>noted that there are no common treatment guidelines for Type 3c, making it more difficult for doctors to determine the right course of action.<\/p>\n

Type 3c is recognized by the American Diabetes Association<\/a>, but a search of its website for information yields no results.<\/p>\n

The scientists who have been researching the disease are raising concerns, year after year, that not enough attention is being paid to it.<\/p>\n

In The Conversation, McGovern concludes: \u201cOur findings highlight the urgent need for improved recognition and diagnosis of this surprisingly common type of diabetes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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