A fasting blood glucose sample indicates that your 24-year-old male patient has hyperglycemia that was not present during a test 6 weeks ago. What is the mostlikely cause of this?

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Although both type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and MODY have acute onset of hyperglycemia, this patient's age makes it more likely to be MODY rather than type 1 DM. Type 2 has a slow and insidious onset. Males cannot have gestational DM.

A Fasting Blood Glucose Sample Indicates That Your 24-Year-Old Male