Does Diabetes run in families?
A fuzzy relationship exists between diabetes and genetics. Diabetes does appear to have some inherited component to it although no evidence points to genetics as the only reason. Genetics probably plays more of a role in determining an individual’s susceptibility to diabetes rather than being an actual cause. Often, an environmental trigger can set off the chain of events that leads to a diabetes diagnosis.
So the answer is a yes and no. Children in families with diabetes may be more susceptible to than others but will need some sort of trigger to cause the onset of disease.
July 14 2007 09:59 pm | General Info
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