What is MODY?
Maturity onset diabetes of the young, or MODY, is a collective term that is used to define any one of several forms of diabetes mellitus that are considered hereditary in nature. MODY usually involves situations where there is an issue with the amount of insulin naturally secreted by the body, and the origin of the issue appears to be inherited from the family line. Currently, the medical profession has defined six different types of MODY that may be present. The concept of MODY was first defined in 1964. At that time, diabetes mellitus was normally understood to occur in two specific types or classes. Juvenile-onset diabetes was understood to more or less coincide with what is today known as Type 1 diabetes. The second type, maturity-onset diabetes, tends to correspond with what is called Type 2 diabetes today. In years past, MODY was applied to any situation where the presence of asymptomatic hyperglycemia that did not progress to diabetic ketosis was detected in a child or a young a
