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Just out of interest - do you have diabetes in the family?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dobbs" data-source="post: 149452" data-attributes="member: 18601"><p><strong>Re: Just out of interest - do you have diabetes in the famil</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dobbs, post: 149452, member: 18601"] [b]Re: Just out of interest - do you have diabetes in the famil[/b] 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! [/QUOTE]
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