What Is Considered Family History Of Diabetes?
Posted in Definition on 05. Feb, 2010
If you have only 1 person with diabetes in a very large family, is this considered family history of diabetes?
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Depends on how that family member got the Diabetes. Was he or she born with it, or did the person get the Diabetes by substaing an injury to the Pancreas later in life, or perhaps having the flu at 104 degrees, for a long peroid of time, or perhaps get Diabetes by by eating too much later in life and not excersing and being over weight.
If a family member is born with Diabetes and is Indian and Black race, and is your family member relating to your birth, Grandfather, Mother Father, then you have a chance of getting Diabetes through Heritage. Otherwise don’t get over weight and stop excersing.
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Family history means it runs in the family. If you’ve got diabetes, one or both parents have it, siblings have it, grandparents have it, aunts/uncles, etc…then it runs in the family (family history).
Know that not all the people I listed above need to have diabetes in order for it to be family history. Family history just means that a bunch of relatives have the same health condition…even if its just 5 relatives.
A family history of diabetes is when more than one person in the family has type 1 diabetes. For example, my mom was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 10 years old (1935). Her sister had a daughter (my mother’s niece) who was diagnosed with type 1 at age 6. My own sister was diagnosed as pre-diabetic in 1965 (that would be considered diabetic by todays standards), it is considered type 2, but she has had it since she was 7 and has controlled it with diet up until the last few years.
With three persons in different generations having type 1 or type 2 as a child, this is considered to be a family history of diabetes.
If you have a family where several members have type 2 diabetes as adults, this is not considered a family history because diet and lifestyle are a major factor with type 2 diabetes.