Recognising type 5 diabetes – Authors’ reply.

Meredith Hawkins¹, Peter Schwarz², Chittaranjan S Yajnik³, Mandeep Bajaj⁴, Alvin C Powers⁵, Michael S Boyne⁶, Sarah Wild⁷, Dirk L Christensen⁸, Silver Bahendeka⁹, Angus G Jones¹⁰, Satinath Mukhopadhyay¹¹, Kaushik Ramaiya^12,13, David Phillips¹⁴, Sylvia Kehlenbrink¹⁵, Davis Kibirige¹⁶, Charlotte Bavuma¹⁷, Noel P Somasundaram¹⁸, Debbie S Thompson¹⁹, Jacko Abodo²⁰, Shitaye Alemu²¹, Prasad Katulanda²², Faruque Pathan²³, Shahjada Selim²⁴, Sarah Mathai²⁵, Mini Joseph²⁶, Mahindra Sonawane²⁷, Sandeep Mathur²⁸, Shajith Anoop²⁵, Sadishkumar Kamalanathan²⁹, Prosenjit Mondal³⁰, Dukhabandhu Naik²⁹, Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam²⁷, Riddhi Dasgupta³¹, Felix Jebasingh²⁵, Nihal Thomas^32,33, Pradnyashree Wadivkar³⁴, Allan A Vaag^35,36,37

1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: meredith.hawkins@einsteinmed.edu.
2. International Diabetes Federation, and Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
3. KEM Hospital & Research Centre, Pune, India.
4. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
5. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
6. The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica.
7. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
8. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
9. Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda.
10. University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
11. Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
12. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
13. Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
14. Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
15. Global Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
16. Uganda Martyrs Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
17. University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
18. Diabetes and Hormone Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
19. Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica.
20. Yopougon Teaching Hospital, Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire.
21. University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
22. University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
23. Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
24. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
25. Christian Medical College Vellore, India.
26. Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
27. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India.
28. Sawai Mansingh Medical College, Jaipur, India.
29. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
30. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur, India.
31. Sapthagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, India.
32. Christian Medical College Vellore, India
33. Centre for Stem Cell Research (a unit of inStem, Bengaluru, India), CMC Vellore, Vellore, India.
34. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
35. Lund University Diabetes Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
36. Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
37. Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.

The Lancet. Global health 2026 Vol. 14 · Issue 2 · pp. e192-e193

PMID 41519145 DOI 10.1016/s2214-109x(25)00483-8