How common is diabetes one? Is there anyone who has it with no family history?

Question

If so what at what age was it diagnosed.? Thank you!!

Thank you, Need a Sugar Fix, I hope it can go away again!!!

Most studies find that older paternal age and sometimes older maternal age is associated with offspring who develop Type 1 just like the studies of so many conditions that seem to appear from nowhere.

I thank you all for answering and yes diabetes 1 is mucho hard, but there are worse conditions. Happy Healthy New

Answer 1

90% of people with Type 1 diabetes have no family history. It is a polygenetic disease (multiple genes involved) that needs an environmental trigger such as a virus. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. It is NOT preventable or related to anything you did or did not do in any way.

It is often first diagnosed in childhood (around puberty is most common), but can also occur in infants, toddlers, and adults up to any age. When Type 1 diabetes occurs in people over 30, it is often a slow developing form called LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults).

Sometimes people who get Type 1 diabetes have a family of other autoimmune disorders, such as Celiac Disease, autoimmune thyroid disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, or Rheumatoid Arthritis, but not Type 1 diabetes.

Also, you may have had an ancestor who died of the "flu" before insulin was discovered and before Type 1 diabetes was easily recognized. Since Type 1 diabetes is quickly fatal without insulin, and often appears after a virus, someone could have died from it with people assuming that the virus was what killed them.

Either way, it is not uncommon to have Type 1 diabetes and no family history.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No one is quite sure what causes diabetes, Type 1 is known to be an autoimmune disorder perhaps brought on by a virus. Type 1 diabetics make up approx. 5-8% of the diabetic population

There is only one way to get type 2 diabetes:

a. You must be predisposed to get it (the Genetic factor) , you may not be aware that any family member has had it, they may not have told anyone OR a member of your family was never diagnosed perhaps because there were no symptoms. The two main causes of death in diabetes is stroke and heart failure. Type 1 can be diagnose at birth and up to the mid 20's (I think)

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b. Something environmental must trigger the diabetes, in most cases it's excess pounds, lack of sufficient exercise and poor eating habits. Anyone or any combination of the 3 can trigger it. Type 2 diabetes makes up approx. 95% of the diabetic population. Type 2 can be diagnosed generally later in life, from 30 years of age. There has been an increase in Type 2 diabetes being diagnosed in younger people.

Answer 4

I was diagnosed (with type 1) when I was 15 with no family history of type 1.

It's hard to talk about family history accurately though. Insulin injections have only been around 80+ years. If I had a relative who had it, most people would have thought he/she had a form of consumption. And insulin injections were a great way to treat type 2 patients, too.

Easy and fast blood sugar checks are a fairly recent development, too. Who know who went undiagnosed to an early death?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I was 13 when diagnosed with no family history of diabetes. I have been doing this "diabetic" thing for almost 19 years now with no complications... I never got the honeymoon period. And it gets exhausting watching everything I do.

Answer 7

I come from a family of ten and I'm the only one that has diabetes.
It was first discovered that I had this disease in 1997. Two years later after suffering from a 'burn out'.. I was cured no signs nor symptoms. In 2005 it returned. Most doctors I've seen say they've never seen such a thing.. and if they had they'd bottle it.

Answer 8

i have it.
you mean type 1 diabetes right?
apparently my grandpa had type 2.
diabetes can be diagnosed at any age- no one has any idea of what causes it

Answer 9

i have type 1, and have no family history of it
(i was 10 when i was diognoased)
the docs said that a virus went inside my body and it looked like the cells of my pancreas. my bod "lost the fight", but then after i recuved from my cold, my body saw my pancreas, and thought it was the virus again, so they attcked it, therefor now my pancreas is not working
~Happy Holiadays~

Answer 10

i have it and i have no family history. I got diagnosed when i was 7
my sisters birthday(the day she was born)