Medicine

Recognising type 5 diabetes.

Anoop Misra, Shashank R Joshi, Ambrish Mithal, Amerta Ghosh

2026.2.1Lancet Global Health

DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(25)00484-x

Abstract

The consensus statement on malnutrition-related diabetes and the proposal to reclassify this condition as type 5 diabetes (October, 2025)1 overlooks detailed analysis and criticism.2 According to our analysis, this type of diabetes is far from distinct.

Citation format

MISRA, Anoop, et al. Recognising type 5 diabetes. Lancet Global Health, 2026, 14 2: e191.