type 1 diabetes
noun
: a form of diabetes mellitus that usually develops during childhood or adolescence and is characterized by a severe deficiency in insulin secretion resulting from atrophy of the islets of Langerhans and causing hyperglycemia and a marked tendency toward ketoacidosis
called also insulin-dependent diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, type 1 diabetes mellitus
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Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2025
Two of the couple's children — son Noble, 15 months, and daughter Goldie, 6 — were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within months of each other, even though there's no history of the condition in their family, the couple tells PEOPLE.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
The researchers also studied nine mice that had long-standing type 1 diabetes.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
Nick Jonas, a singer, actor, and member of the Jonas Brothers, also has type 1 diabetes.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 24 Nov. 2025
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type 1 diabetes
noun
: diabetes of a form that usually develops during childhood or adolescence and is characterized by a severe deficiency of insulin secretion resulting from atrophy of the islets of Langerhans and causing hyperglycemia and a marked tendency toward ketoacidosis
called also insulin-dependent diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile diabetes, juvenile-onset diabetes, type 1 diabetes mellitus
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