Just missing the one-year anniversary of my initial Hypoinsulinism and Insulin Resistance Syndicate content post, which argues that we need to stop talking about "diabetes" and instead focus more on the causes of each individual's tendency towards elevated blood sugar, I've run across the posting SKEWED STATISTICS: The Inclusion of People with Type 1 Diabetes in the Statistics for Type 2 Diabetes which summarizes a few sources to paint a picture of type 2 diabetes behaving much more predictably than is commonly believed. According to this article's premise, much of the complexity attributed to the causes and progression of type 2 is actually due to the failure of researchers to properly distinguish slow-onset autoimmune (i.e., type 1) diabetes from type 2 diabetes in adults.

Just what is diabetes, what causes it, and why is it an issue?

The mass media love to play up the sensationalized "diabetes epidemic", ignoring that there is more than one form of diabetes, only one of which is soaring, and often failing to mention that issues relevant to one form may not apply to others.

The medical community, on the other hand, recognizes three major (and several minor) variations on diabetes based on how exactly it came about, yet research and recommendations are all too often done on the basis of "diabetes" as if it were a unified whole without regard for those variations.