British physician and medical scientist who in 1936 published an influential paper in The Lancet distinguishing insulin-sensitive from insulin-insensitive diabetes, the distinction underlying the modern classification of type 2 and type 1 diabetes.
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Harold Himsworth
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His 1936 Lancet paper distinguished insulin-sensitive from insulin-insensitive diabetes, the basis of the type 1 and type 2 split.
In 1936 Harold Himsworth, a British physician and medical scientist, published an influential paper in The Lancet distinguishing insulin-sensitive from insulin-insensitive diabetes. That distinction underlies the modern classification of type 2 and type 1 diabetes.
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Source Diabetes Australia: 1936, A Proposal to Separate Diabetes into Type 1 and Type 2
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His early involvement in medical research (especially of diabetes and later of liver disease) would lead to an important 1936 paper in The Lancet, distinguishing the two main types of diabetes.
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