How diabetes challenge in India has moved beyond types 1 & 2
- Kamini Mathai
- TNNUpdated: Feb 25, 2026, 09:57 IST IST
Until the 1970s, diabetes diagnosis was pretty much black and white — juvenile or adult onset, Type 1 or Type 2. But today, doctors are looking at a spectrum of 50 or so subtypes refined by genetic and clinical classifications.