The NHS is planning to use genetic testing to help diagnose thousands of people who have a rare inherited form of diabetes.
The condition, monogenetic diabetes, makes up one in fifty diabetes cases, but it is difficult to diagnose or distinguish from the more common types of the condition – type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Patients with monogenetic diabetes often do not need insulin injections but can manage their condition with tablets.
The test can also detect whether children have inherited the affected gene and will go on to develop monogenic diabetes, typically before the age of thirty.
Read more at https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/08/nhs-to-diagnose-thousands-of-people-with-rare-diabetes/.