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Type 2 is diabetes hereditary?

nessabie

Member
Messages
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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Non-insulin injectable medication (incretin mimetics)
hi, my mum, myself, my brother, a couple of my mums sisters and my mother in law are/were all type 2. what are the chances my daughter will become one? she eats well, exercises and works on her feet all day. she is a big girl at 6ft and a bit heavier than she'd like and aged 23? thanks
 
Well they do say you have more chance of developing T2 if you have a family history of it
 
My mums family all had it but I was pre diabetic but have reversed it, I think we inherit our eating habits too and there may be a weakness of carbs, like an allergy, I would get my daughter off pure carbs Ie sugar stuff and up veg and fats,if your daughter is a bit heavier then she is already storing fat, so to many carbs, over the years our ability to tolerate carbs decreases, hence middle age spread, I would limit her on sugar foods, I do my daughter and son. There is so much sugar loaded into all foods download sugar smart app and get children involved in reading the labels and working out the sugar content, it's good practice for when they leave home and have to look after themselves and control their own eating habits.
 
There are a LOT of different factors. Diet, activity, lifestyle, genetics, environment, pollution, career choice...
 
I am type2, my sisters eldest son is type1. That's all in my family, but my dad's brothers wife is type2 but I don't count her as not a blood relative
 
Yes - but generally in a less direct way than blue eyes are, for example. Other factors often play a role in making hte disease manifest itself.

In my case - 100% of all of the descendants of my maternal grandfather who are my age or older have diabetes. (Skinny, fat, active, couch potato, high carb/low carb - it doesn't seem to matter.) I don't know what the trigger factors are that make it manifest itself (aside from the only common factor I'm aware of - age - all of us were 59+ at diagnosis)
 
hi she left home years ago and is now married i have no say in what she eats, but her n her hubby are pretty good x
 
Couple of other considerations is whether any of our family members in years gone by were diabetic but undiagnosed, and died of other causes; and whether successive government crusades like the one a couple of years ago caused a spike in early diagnoses of T2 which otherwise might have taken longer to come to light.
 
My mother and maternal grandfather were both T2 and my younger brother is as well.
 
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