Does diabetes skip a generation?
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No, it's not true.  Diabetes is partly related to genetic factors, meaning it runs in families-- some families have more of a tendency than others to get it.  There's no specifica pattern to which family members get it-- sometimes a person from every generation will get it, sometime none will, sometimes you'll get it and no one else in your family (that you know of) will have had it.  In addition to genetics/heredity, a lot of it has to do with how you live your life.  Someone who has many family members with it could decrease their own chances of getting it by exercizing, eating right, avoiding junk food, maintaining a weight and losing weight if they become overweight.
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As far as I know, diabetes is a physiological abnormality with no permanent "cure." It occurs because of a lack of insulin production (Type 1) or loss of sensitivity to the insulin in body receptors (Type 2). The only solutions to this is addition of insulin or increasing the sensitivity of the receptors (which is what most anti-diabetic medications do). There is a great deal of work being done, currently, on early diagnosis (through new techniques including gene modification, since it seems to be somewhat hereditary), and prevention. Once you have diabetes, there is no way that currently exists to get rid of it. However, exceptions to this rule do exist. That is, some pregnant women get diabetes during their pregnancy, but the disease resolves itself after they give birth. Furthermore, proper care and treatment can keep the diabetes mild, while without keeping it under control can lead to even worse problems.
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Yes. Even if you are at a high risk for diabetes (due to your genetics), you can lower your chances by eating healthy, exercising regularly, and monitoring your lab work (cholesterol, triglycerides, blood glucose, etc.). Work with your doctor / healthcare team to come up with a prevention plan. \n\nBe aware though that diabetes is a highly heriditary condition. While these things can / will lower your risks for development of the disease, you may still get diabetes. None of these are guranteed to stop the onset of diabetes. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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Whoa... I can see there is a lot of misunderstanding about diabetes.  The thing you need to know is that there are two types of diabetes.\n\nType 1 Diabetes presents more commonly during early childhood or early puberty but can occur at any age.  Type 1 specifically refers to diabetes resulting from the destruction of insulin-secreting cells in your pancreas.  All Type 1 diabetics require insulin because their body no longer makes it.\n\nType 2 Diabetes presents more commonly in adulthood but can occur at any age and is being seen in younger and younger patients.  Type 2 specifically refers to diabetes resulting from your body's becoming more resistant (or less sensitive) to the insulin that your pancreas produces.  Most patients can be treated with oral medications that improve your body's sensitivity to your endogenous insulin or stimulate more insulin release from your pancreas.  Type 2 diabetics have high levels of insulin circulating unlike Type 1 diabetics.  Some Type 2 diabetics may go on to need insulin if their oral medications are not adequately controlling their sugars; most will be on a combination of insulin and oral meds.\n\nBoth Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are multifactorial.  There are both genetic and environmental factors that lead to the disease.  Therefore, just because one identical twin has diabetes (either kind) does not necessarily mean that the other will get it as well!\n\nPopulation studies have shown that for Type 1 diabetes...\nIf your mom has Type 1 DM - your risk is 1 in 17\nIf your mom has Type 1 DM and had you before age 25 - your risk 1 in 25\nIf your mom has Type 1 DM and had you after age 25 - your risk 1 in 100\nIf your mom got Type 1 DM before she was 11 - the above risk doubles\nIf both your parents have Type 1 DM - your risk is 1 in 5\n\nFor Type 2 diabetes...\nIf you have one parent who had Type 2 DM before 50 - your risk is 1 in 7\nIf you have one parent who had Type 2 DM after 50 - your risk is 1 in 13\nIf you have two parents with Type 2 DM - your risk is 1 in 2\nIf you have an identical twin with Type 2 DM - your risk is 3 in 4\n\nThis information is all available from the American Diabetes Association.  As you can see, Type 2 diabetes actually has a higher inherited risk than Type 1!  There are things that you can do to minimize your chances of developing Type 2 DM, though, even though you are at risk.  That includes regular exercise, maintenance of a healthy weight, and reducing fat and calorie intake.  There are also some medications that can reduce your risk of developing Type 2 DM; you should talk to your doctor about whether these would be appropriate for you.  Above all, don't worry!  You are expressing concern about your health which is the FIRST STEP!  If you are motivated to take the appropriate steps towards maintaining your health, the odds of preventing diabetes are in your favor!!  Good luck!\n\nEDIT:\nTo justwannaknow - I think what you say is misleading.  The AMA's recommendation in 2002 was for people to take a daily multivitamin.  There is still no recommendation for physicians to advise patients to take herbal supplements and other nutritional supplements like "Glycoscience".\n\nTo hmt42play - Islet cell transplants are not being recommended for patients with Type 2 diabetes!!!  As you diabetes educator, you should be aware of this!  Type 2 diabetics generally have functioning islet cells and DO produce insulin.  The problem is with insulin resistance so giving them more islet cells would not resolve the underlying problem.  Islet cell transplants are currently only being used in unstable Type 1 diabetics.  Please do not give this poor woman the idea that islet cell transplantation is a cure for Type 2 diabetes!
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There is a theory that type 1 diabetes gets triggered in people who already have a tendency to develop the disease. They say people with certain tissue types are more likely to become diabetic, and you inherit these tissue types from your ancestors. A viral infection of some kind has been suggested as the trigger (maybe even the flu? or a cold?). The reason this is unusual is that one would expect such a deadly disease to get less common over time, rather than more common as it is. It is proposed that the diabetic tissue type offered some advantage to people living a marginal existence (hunting for food), and that this explains why more people are diabetic in modern times. Maybe modern living is too easy? (I know, it doesn't seem too easy to me either.)
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Vitiligo is genetic to some extent but it will not repeat in the immediate generations...
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At this point stem cell research is still very much in the testing stage when it comes to curing diabetics. I would strongly advise you away from this option for right now. There are some child friendly ways to administer insulin, and any pediatric endocrinologist would be more then happy to help you find ways to make sure your son can get used to being diabetic. \n\nBut like I said before - the cure for diabetes is not here yet. If the people behind these sites are claiming a cure, they're lying. What they're more then likely looking for are test subjects. Which is dangerous and best left to diabetic patients who can make that choice for themselves - not a 6 year old boy.
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Both my brother and his wife have Type II diabetes.  They had a baby 05/20/04.  He was 8 weeks early because she developed pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure) and her kidneys began failing.  They had to induce labor to save her and my nephew.\n\nThey are both fine now.  He is into his terrible twos and not diabetic.
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Type 1 diabetes is genetic and you take insulin until you die. Nothing really helps it. Type 2 is very different and almost always caused by people getting fat and having not enough muscle. If that is what you have, then on below site the last paragraph under "exercise" explains the benefit of you having it.\n\nThe rest of the site covers many foods that are good for it and why and includes a quote from American Diabetes Assoc. Note-- if you have type 2 diabetes and are slim and fit then completely ignore this advice and site. If you become slim and fit the need for it will be gone and it will disappear.
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There are many sources to look at.\n\nProbably the most user-friendly is from the American Diabetes Association.\n\nEnjoy.
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I have had Type I diabetes for twenty years now and was told the same thing you were. Ha-ha. \n\nBasically, the fat, rich, old white men with Type II are using their economic and political muscle to shift research efforts toward treating their diabetes, which is a lifestyle disorder and something they did to themselves, instead of helping more deserving diabetics who are suffering from a genetic disorder that they had no part in causing. The research efforts for curing Type I has been severely compromised by the explosion of Type II cases and the considerable might of those contracting it.\n\nBasically, we got the shaft.
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No type one diabetes cannot be diagnosed until age 2 or 3
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Yes. Genetic diseases are passed to future generations through the 23 pairs of chromosomes from each parent.\nGenetic and hereditary diseases are one and the same.
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There have been quite a few genes associated with rarer forms of type 2 diabetes-The majority are transcription factors, such as hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha (HNF-4alpha), HNF-1alpha, insulin promoter factor-1 (IPF-1), HNF-1beta, and NEUROD1. But, these are found, as said before, in more severe and rare forms of inherited type 2 diabetes. \nFor the more common form of late-onset diabetes, it is more subtle, and therefore not as easy to find clear genetic traits.  However, a few genes have been found to have modifications in some people, like calpain 10, PPARgamma, KCJN11, and insulin itself, and some evidence shows that genes involved in the insulin receptor pathway may influence type 2 diabetes, like adiponectin, IRS-1, and some others may also influence the susceptibility to T2DM.
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You can get type two diabetes. They aren't sure exactly how but poor eating habits lack of excercise age and most of all obesity.
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There are 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.
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There is not a recessive (or for that matter dominant) gene for diabetes. \n\nType 1 is inherited, but only as a vulnerability for some HLA types. These are the 'self' proteins which distinguish you from all others (save your identical twin). An infection seems to be the most common way to get the immune system confused enough to also attack the beta cells. There may be an advantage in having one of the 'diabetes tendency' HLA setups, but I'm aware of none. It may be, as some speculate about Black Death surviors and their descendants, that they are less susceptible to some diseases. This is quite hard to study and tese out any benefit. If present, it's hardly as easily distinguished as was the sicle cell trait. \n\nAs for Type 2, there is even more ineritabiliyt, and not one gene (recessive or not). Type 2 clearly can develop from any of several issues, all connected with insulin resistance of one degree or another. Again, there may be an advantage to having genes leading to Type 2 (usually with an environmental push -- obesity, age, stress, some medications,  ...), but it is speculative and there is little evidence of it. Again studies to find such an advantage will be long, awkward adn expensive. Possibly worth doing, but businesse must limit large expenditures to something they can have some reason will produce revenue. Long term studies o fthis sort are hard to justify on that basis.