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What are the different types of diabetes?

Cluster 1: Severe autoimmune diabetes, or ‘type one’ diabetes, people stop producing insulin.

Cluster 2: Severe insulin-deficient diabetes affects young people with high blood sugar, low insulin production and moderate insulin resistance.

Cluster 3: Severe insulin-resistant diabetes is mostly linked to obesity.

Cluster 4: Mild obesity-related diabetes – affects obese patients but is less serious.

Cluster 5: Mild age-related diabetes is the biggest group, mostly elderly patients.

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