What are the odds of having diabetes if nobody in your immediate family is known to have it?
dipelli asked:
In other words, is it likely to have prediabetes or diabetes if nobody in your family has it?
While I’m at it, is prediabetes/diabetes common in teenagers?
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In other words, is it likely to have prediabetes or diabetes if nobody in your family has it?
While I’m at it, is prediabetes/diabetes common in teenagers?
Lower Cholesterol Level
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 am
You can definitely have diabetes, even without any family history.
It’s not common in teenagers. It usually begins in childhood or later in life.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:45 am
u get that from
heredity
behavior
environment
u have no heredity problems
suspect u have nice town
behavior isnt anything with diabetes
super small chance
December 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Type 1 you developes in childhood and you would probably have known by now.
Type 2 developes in obese people, and it does not matter in there is not history. You could still get it, so get tested if you are concerned.
December 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
anything is possible
only somethings are likely
December 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I have type 1 diabetes and no one in my family is diabetic. Unfortunately type 1 is an auto-immune disorder meaning essentially your immune system has gone haywire and destroyed your pancreatic cells. Therefore, type 1 is impossible to predict but generally occurs before someone had turned twenty-one. If no one in your family is a type 2 diabetic than the chances of you becoming diabetic later in life are very slim.
December 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
It doesn’t really matter if anyone in your family has ever had it before, you can still have it. However, having a family history does give you a greater risk at having it. And as the first answerer said, it isn’t common in teenagers, but it can happen.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:26 am
there’s a 5 to 10 percent chance of getting diabetes most teens don’t get diabetes but as you get older its easier to get