Classifying a distinct form of diabetes in lean individuals with a history of undernutrition: an international consensus statement.

Pradnyashree Wadivkar¹, Felix Jebasingh², Nihal Thomas^3,4, Chittaranjan S Yajnik⁵, Allan Arthur Vaag^6,7,8, Davis Kibirige⁹, Silver Bahendeka¹⁰, Mandeep Bajaj¹¹, Michael S Boyne¹², Charlotte Bavuma¹³, Jacko Abodo¹⁴, Sarah Wild¹⁵, Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam¹⁶, Satinath Mukhopadhyay¹⁷, Noel P Somasundaram¹⁸, Peter Schwarz¹⁹, Dirk L Christensen²⁰, Faruque Pathan²¹, Angus G Jones²², Sandeep Mathur²³, Sylvia Kehlenbrink²⁴, Meredith Hawkins²⁵

1. Global Diabetes Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
2. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
3. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
4. Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
5. Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital, Pune, India.
6. Lund University Diabetes Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
7. Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
8. Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
9. Department of Medicine, Uganda Martyrs Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
10. Mother Kevin Post Graduate Medical School, Uganda Martyrs University, St Francis Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
11. Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
12. The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica.
13. College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
14. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, and Medical Commission, Yopougon Teaching Hospital, Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire.
15. Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
16. Department of Biological Sciences, Advanced Research Unit on Metabolism, Development & Aging (ARUMDA), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India.
17. Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
18. Diabetes and Hormone Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
19. International Diabetes Federation, and Division for Prevention and Care of Diabetes Mellitus, Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
20. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
21. BIRDEM General Hospital, Ibrahim Memorial Diabetes Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
22. University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
23. Sawai Mansingh Medical College, Jaipur, India.
24. Global Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
25. Global Diabetes Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: meredith.hawkins@einsteinmed.edu.

The Lancet. Global health 2025 Vol. 13 · Issue 10 · pp. e1771-e1776

PMID 40975084 DOI 10.1016/s2214-109x(25)00263-3