# Five categories. Thoughts? Agree or disagree? **URL:** \ **Category:** D-News\ **Created:** [March 3, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/five-categories-thoughts-agree-or-disagree/3631 "2018-03-03T17:18:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![dm61](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/dm61/32/1602_2.png) [@dm61](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/dm61)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/five-categories-thoughts-agree-or-disagree/3631/13 "2018-03-04T17:04:25Z")
The same topic was addressed in [another FUD thread](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-at-least-5-diseases-says-sweden-and-finland-research/3618), and @jag1 provided a clear interpretation. This work was not about “5 types not 2”, it was looking into **_categorizing adult-onset diabetes only_** (which is imo long overdue): > [@Diabetes at least 5 diseases says Sweden and Finland research](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-at-least-5-diseases-says-sweden-and-finland-research/3618/12): > > Once again the media (BBC in this case) simply misunderstood what they were writing about. Here’s a better summary [https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/type-2-diabetes-could-be-five-separate-diseases](https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/type-2-diabetes-could-be-five-separate-diseases) Apparently this paper was looking only at adult-onset diabetes which has traditionally been termed T2 diabetes, and found they could split these into five groups, but not the ones that the BBC reported. If you were diagnosed as a juvenile you are still a T1 and this doesn’t change, and the T1 group can b… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/five-categories-thoughts-agree-or-disagree/3631)._