Is diabetes a hereditary disease?

Answer 1

Type 2 diabetes is one of those diseases where you inherit a predisposition to acquire the disease. It is then triggered by a combination of poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and excess weight.

Sweety needs to do her homework... sugar most certainly does not cause diabetes. That is an old rumor.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Diabetes is largely a hereditary disease with the inheritance being stronger in Type 2 diabetes. If both parents are diabetic, then the risk for the offspring is close to 100%. If either one of the parents is diabetic, there is 40% chance of the offspring getting diabetes. If parents and grandparents are diabetic, then the offspring are likely to develop diabetes at a early age - as early as - 20-25 years of age.

Answer 5

Obviously ALOT of people have not talked to thier Doctors or have done any research on diabeties. Type 2 is usually inherited and can either be controlled by pills, exercise and diet. But in type 1 diabetics a virus attacks the pancreas causing it to shut down therefore needing insulin injections or a pump to control this desease better unless in the (honeymoon stage)--which means there body is still producing a little insulin. I am a loving mother of a 2 year old type 1 diabetic and have went to many classes, doctors appointments, dieticians, gotten second opionions, and have read many many articals on this disease. No one in my family or in her fathers family has diabeties..

Answer 6

Diabetes has several contributing factors. You can inherit diabetes, an autoimmune attack can occur, and also, if you become overweight, you increase your odds for developing type 2 diabetes.

I am a type one diabetic..I developed diabetes through an autoimmune attack..... (when your own body attacks itself....in my case...it killed off all of the beta cells...resulting in diabetes).

However, diabetes does what it wants...it can attack whoever, whenever. Just because a close relative has diabetes....it doesn't mean that you have a extremely high chance of getting it....diabetes can skip generations....so, it is always good to keep a health conscience mind and eat propperly..but....type 1 diabetes...can strike...anyone..reguardless of your health.


...hope this helps

Answer 7

I have to agree with Ginger J; there is a lot of misinformation about diabetes in these posts. My younger brother was diagnosed with type I, or Juvenile, diabetes at age seven. Ginger J gave some great info, but there is a little I'd like to add. Now I'm not an expert, and viruses may attack the pancreas directly, but it is my understanding that an autoimmune disorder causes type I. Meaning the patients body's immune system attacks the pancreas, rendering it unable to supply adequate amounts (if any) of insulin. There are studies that link abnormalities in the immune system to heredity and in that regard, if you are related to someone with type I, your risk for type I as well as other diseases caused by autoimmunity increases.

My family is like a petri dish for that theory. In our group of 5 siblings, we have a type I diabetic, a Crohn's disease sufferer (Crohn's is chronic inflammation of the intestines, caused by a malfunction of the immune system) and two of us have cholinergic urticaria (chronic rash or inflammation of the skin triggered by a rise in body temp., also linked to autoimmune disorders).

Answer 8

Heredity is one of the several risk factors for diabetes. The others are obesity, stress, smoking, lack of exercise etc.

So, even if one is prone by heredity, one can minimise the chances of developing diabetes through proper diet (with lots of fiber), exercise, stress management, giving up smoking and drinking etc.

Since diabetes can lead to several other complications if untreated or poorly controlled (vasculopathy, neuropathy etc. and increases the chances of heart problems, strokes and so on), diabetes should not be neglected and should be managed properly.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Type 2 definately is. Four generations of women in my family have developed it. I was diagnosed at the youngest age and seem to have the most trouble with it.