What are the chances of me getting diabetes?
Posted in Definition on 25. Jul, 2010
Question by itfactor: What are the chances of me getting diabetes?
As far as I know, diabetes doesn’t run in my family. My dad has high cholesterol, 2 of my aunts and my mom have high blood pressure, another aunt has a thyroid problem, and my dad’s cousin died from pancreatic cancer. Are my chances high? I’ve heard a lot of these link to diabetes, but I’m not sure which one I’m at risk to get if at all.
I forgot to mention I am 19 years old if that helps.
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Answer by David
get a fasting glucose test. it,s big in my family. i,ve never had an issue in my 62 years.
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Hi,
You are at risk to develop high blood pressure and cholesterol. The risk of diabetes for you is more; if you have these problems otherwise it is the same as general population. Hope this helps. Take care. For more information visit this useful site
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Normally, everything you eat will be processed by your body and turn into a form of sugar called glucose. This glucose is where your body gets energy, but before your body gets this energy, your body needs to pump the glucose (that was previously produce from eating) to every cell of your body with the help of insulin. Insulin are basically produce by the pancreas. Any abnormal behavior within the process would result in either Type 1 (mostly, hereditary) or Type 2 diabetes which is often cause by being overweight (obese) or sedentary (non-active) lifestyle.
Even if diabetes doesn´t run in the family, you can still acquire the disease if you?e having a sedentary lifestyle and without proper balance diet which will result to Type 2 diabetes. You can check out a more detailed info about Type 2 diabetes from here http://diabetes-research.net/type-2-diabetes/ this will give you a good insight on how to avoid it.
Hope that helps in some way.