Ever wonder how clinicians distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes? Though I view the different types of diabetes as more of a sliding spectrum, clinicians are required to diagnose patients as type 1 OR type 2 based on set criteria. Insurance payers then use the established diagnosis to decide what technology and medications they will or will not cover. Yeah...it makes me mad too. So, what is this criteria? The easiest way to distinguish between diabetes types is throu