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<blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 425742" data-attributes="member: 16982"><p>There is a genetic element to some types of diabetes, some quite strongly so. I have a monogenic type which means I have a 50% chance of passing on the faulty gene to any children, if I do they will definitely aquire it at some point during adolescence or young adulthood.</p><p>Other types of diabetes are less 'genetic'. Probably the doctors don't really know to what extent. I think the explosion in cases of diabetes worldwide is not just due to the high carb /low exercise western diet but more the fact that since insulin was discovered only a few generations ago diabetics are living and breeding when previously they would either have died or not carried a child - it's only one generation since many diabetic women were dissuaded from having families at all.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My mum for example she had us in the 70s and had three difficult pregnancies, all resulted in children but 2 of us have the big D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the_anticarb, post: 425742, member: 16982"] There is a genetic element to some types of diabetes, some quite strongly so. I have a monogenic type which means I have a 50% chance of passing on the faulty gene to any children, if I do they will definitely aquire it at some point during adolescence or young adulthood. Other types of diabetes are less 'genetic'. Probably the doctors don't really know to what extent. I think the explosion in cases of diabetes worldwide is not just due to the high carb /low exercise western diet but more the fact that since insulin was discovered only a few generations ago diabetics are living and breeding when previously they would either have died or not carried a child - it's only one generation since many diabetic women were dissuaded from having families at all. My mum for example she had us in the 70s and had three difficult pregnancies, all resulted in children but 2 of us have the big D. [/QUOTE]
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