Novel Classification of Adult-onset Diabetes and Its Association With Common Microvascular Complications in Upper Egypt

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult-onset DM type 2 diagnosed patients according to current ADA recommendations, aged \<18 years old and within 3 years from the time of diagnosis. Exclusion Criteria: * 1- Patients diagnosed with Gestational DM or rare types of diabetes like monogenic diabetes types, such as maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), diabetes secondary to steroid use, cystic fibrosis, hemochromatosis, and pancreatic diabetes according to ADA criteria. 2- Patients diagnosed with non-diabetic kidney diseases, such as chronic glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, polycystic kidney disease, and renal cancer or patients with a transplanted kidney were excluded from the analysis for diabetic kidney disease. 3- Patients diagnosed with retinopathy due to non-diabetic causes or diagnosed with neuropathy due to non-diabetic causes will be excluded from the analysis for diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, respectively.