Making an aetiological diagnosis in diabetes: Case examples
Webster A., Owen K.
In the last issue of the journal, our article focused on the features of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) and how primary care health professionals may distinguish this from the more common forms of diabetes they see. Here we present four cases in order to illustrate some exemplar patients who were misdiagnosed with atypical type 1 or 2 diabetes, but had some form of MODY.