Re: Just out of interest - do you have diabetes in the famil
I wonder if there were many more cases of undiagnosed diabetes, say, thirty or forty years ago, so that it gets harder to be sure if there is a family connection the further back in time we go.
My father died at the age of 54, of a heart attack, in 1974. Admittedly he was overweight (possibly obese, by today's standards), smoked, and did little exercise. But ever since I was diagnosed T2 at the age of 47 (and I reckon I'd been diabetic for a good few years before that), and read up about diabetes and heart disease, I have wondered if he was an undiagnosed and therefore uncontrolled case, which might explain what happened to him.
So in my case I don't know if there is a family connection or not. I had an uncle with diabetes but he wasn't a blood relative. And he lived to 90!
I wonder if there were many more cases of undiagnosed diabetes, say, thirty or forty years ago, so that it gets harder to be sure if there is a family connection the further back in time we go.
My father died at the age of 54, of a heart attack, in 1974. Admittedly he was overweight (possibly obese, by today's standards), smoked, and did little exercise. But ever since I was diagnosed T2 at the age of 47 (and I reckon I'd been diabetic for a good few years before that), and read up about diabetes and heart disease, I have wondered if he was an undiagnosed and therefore uncontrolled case, which might explain what happened to him.
So in my case I don't know if there is a family connection or not. I had an uncle with diabetes but he wasn't a blood relative. And he lived to 90!