Diabetes is genetic disease or not ?

[BraveLauren]

My grandmother who had type 2 diabetes, am I at risk?

 

[merrymunky]

I’m not sure if it puts you at greater risk than the average person but yes diabetes is a genetic condition. If you have it, someone else in the family will have been diabetic. My father is plus there were people on my Mother’s side of the family.

Diet/weight/lifestyle will contribute to you becoming diabetic but in my case I would have been diagnosed at some point in my life. I think my own weight and diet didn’t help though. Just brought it out sooner.

 

[Northerner]

My grandmother who had type 2 diabetes, am I at risk?

You're probably more at risk, but it doesn't mean it's inevitable. The best attitude to take to reduce your risk is to just look after yourself the best you can - by doing that you will also reduce your risk of many other health problems 🙂

 

[Mark T]

It depends...

Did your grandmother have it all her life or just towards the later years? Its not uncommon for people to develop diabetes in the later years as their bodies stop working as effectively (although I'd argue this was a genetic factor).

You won't of inherited all your genes from your grandmother either.

I'm a third generation diabetic, so for me it looks very genetic. But everyone is different!

 

[Drummer]

My father's mother was a type two diabetic and I discovered that there is/was diabetes in my mother's family too.
I have needed to eat a low carb diet all my adult life, and to insist that I did since diagnosis, but it isn't much of a problem really.

 

[Flower]

This article on the Diabetes UK website deals with the complex genetics of developing Type 2 diabetes ,the research has discovered that there are over a dozen genes that appear to be directly linked to the development of T2 but that multiple other complex factors are at work as well. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/researc...worldwide-uncover-genetics-of-type-2-diabetes

 

[SB2015]

Even if there is a genetic element, that just gives you an early warning to prevent it.
It is not inevitable, just more likely than for some others.

Focus on your own lifestyle and avoid the problems.

 

[BraveLauren]

You're probably more at risk, but it doesn't mean it's inevitable. The best attitude to take to reduce your risk is to just look after yourself the best you can - by doing that you will also reduce your risk of many other health problems 🙂

Thanks for your encouragement. I've joined yoga course and hope that yoga is the great way to help reduce risk of diabetes.

 

[novonord]

twin studies indicate that type 1 has a strong genetic basis, particularly in, for instance, identical twins.
type 1.5 less so but still quite strong.
type 2 some but less than the others...explains why some thin individuals without other risk factors for type 2 nevertheless become type 2 sufferers....an interesting announcement from a company called genomics today on the London Stock Exchange newsfeed about the polygenic nature of diseases, one of which was type 2 diabetes.

 

[grainger]

Saying that I’m the only known diabetic in my family - type 1 or 2. So sometimes I think people’s bodies just break a bit!

 

[Northerner]

Thanks for your encouragement. I've joined yoga course and hope that yoga is the great way to help reduce risk of diabetes.

I think that's a great idea, I hope you enjoy it! 🙂

 

[SueEK]

My grandfather had T1, nothing else in either side of family so was very surprised when told I had T2, also not overweight but think the media have just concentrated on that part of T2. My DN friend at work said that my pancreas has probably just decided to stop doing it’s job properly, nothing to do but get on with it.

 

[Carlos]

I think there are two different things being mixed up in here, genetic and inherited. The propensity to develop type 1 is genetic, but not generally inherited. On the other hand the genetic predisposition to develop type 2 is generally inherited, and tends to run in family groups.

Note the operative word, predisposition, you may have the genes and not develop the condition.

 

[HOBIE]

If your Mother cooked carb rich meals there is a good chance the whole family might be at risk. If your whole family played a certain sport you would be good at that ? 😉 Good luck