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Multiple roads lead to the pathophysiologic defects that cause hyperglycemia. While autoimmune diabetes can be characterized quite readily in many patients, the remaining patients are far more heterogeneous. Efforts to reinvent the classification, at least to date, have not appreciably changed, or guided, the management of individual patients – the notable exception being monogenic forms of diabetes. Nevertheless, appreciating the underlying defects as well as the limitations of autoantibody and β‐cell function testing should help improve the care of patients with unclear classification and with associated comorbidities.