What Are The Risk Factors For Type 1 Diabetes And Age Of Onset?
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What are the risk factors for type 2 diabetes and age of onset? Please explain in detail!
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Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors
Even though it is not fully understood clearly why some people develop type 2 diabetes, It is clear that certain factors do increase the risk.
* Weight.
Being overweight or worse obese, is a major risk factor for diabetes type 2.
The more fatty tissue you have, the less the insulin receptors will function correctly.
* Inactivity.
Physical activity, especially exercise, uses up glucose as energy and makes your cells more receptive to insulin.
Physical activity helps you to control your weight.
Physical activity greatly contributes to a healthy lifestyle.
The less active you are, the more you run the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
* Family history.
If a parent or a sibling has type 2 diabetes, the risk of you getting diabetes type 2 increases.
* Age.
As you get older, the risk of type 2 diabetes increases, most noticeably after age 45.
People are more prone to a sedentary lifestyle and tend to exercise less, thus losing muscle mass and gaining weight as they age. This could be the reason why the risk escalates with age.
However, type 2 diabetes is also increasing dramatically among children, adolescents and younger adults.
* Prediabetes.
Pre-diabetes is a condition in which your blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes.
Left untreated, prediabetes often progresses to type 2 diabetes.
* Gestational diabetes.
If you develop diabetes when you are pregnant (gestational diabetes), your risk of developing type 2 diabetes increases.
If you gave birth to a baby weighing more than 4.1kg.(9 lb), then you are also at risk of type 2 diabetes.
* Low birth weight.
People who weighed less than 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) at birth are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life.
The answer to that question would get you the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the century!!!
There is really no set of risk factors and age of onset is changing http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes for more information
or go read your text book for outdated material