Type 3c Diabetes: More Common Than Type 1 and Often Misdiagnosed as Type 2

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Type 3c Diabetes: More Common Than Type 1 and Often Misdiagnosed as Type 2

By Sysy Morales

Sysy Morales has lived with type 1 diabetes for 22 years. She also blogs at The Girls Guide to Diabetes, is a motivational speaker, and is a graduate of The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Sysy lives in Roanoke, Virginia with her husband and 8 year old twins.

While type 2 diabetes often goes undetected and undiagnosed and type 1 diabetes is often caught too late or confused for type 2 diabetes in adults, there is another type of diabetes out there that patients have which is often not recognized.

A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care writes that some people’s health is at risk due to “the failure of doctors to recognise which type of diabetes they have,”

Researchers from the University of Surrey looked at primary care records of over 2 million patients and analyzed the frequency of different diabetes diagnosis and how accurate the diagnosis were.

They gave special attention to a type of diabetes referred to as type 3c diabetes which is also known as pancreatogenic diabetes or diabetes of the exocrine pancreas. This type of diabetes “occurs as a result of pancreatic inflammation, abnormal growth of tissue on the organ or surgically removing part or all of the tissue, which affects the body’s ability to produce insulin,” states a press release from the University.

Many Diagnosed With Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes Have Type 3c?

Researchers found that up to 97.3 percent of people who had pancreatic disease at some point in life are generally diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when they really have type 3c diabetes.

This is problematic because treatment for type 3c diabetes generally requires insulin before those with type 2 require it. Not getting the right treatment can cause high blood sugars that lead to complications such as nerve, eye, and kidney damage.

Researchers also found that adults are more likely to develop type 3c diabetes thank type 1 diabetes. In the study, 205 more people were newly diagnosed with type 3c diabetes than with type 1 diabetes. This means that type 3c diabetes may be a more common occurrence than what is currently believed and people are possibly at risk of not getting diagnosed and properly treated.

The lead author of the study, Professor Simon de Lusignan from the University of Surrey stressed in the release that, “Greater awareness of Type 3c diabetes within the medical profession is required immediately to improve management of this disease, which now has a higher incidence than Type 1 diabetes in adults.”

The main takeaway is that most people with type 3c diabetes are misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes and that type 3c diabetes is more prevalent than type 1 diabetes in adults. Proper diabetes care begins with a proper diagnosis.

ast Updated: October 24th, 2017

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What is type C?Any distinctive diagnostic tools?