title: When to suspect 'funny' diabetes.
abstract: Diabetes comes in many shapes and forms. It is important for the general physician to recognise when clinical characteristics, response to treatment and associated features suggest an alternative variety of diabetes, over and above the traditional type 1 and type 2 forms which are far more common. Key to these suspicions are taking a clear history of the development of the diabetes and being aware of the family history.
authors.affiliation: Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK drpaul.grant@doctors.org.uk.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.affiliation: King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Velusamy
authors.affiliation: King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
authors.forename: Ali J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Chakera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
keywords: Maturity onset of the young; ketosis prone type 2 diabetes; latent autoimmune diabetes of adult onset; molecular genetics; monogenic diabetes