If both of my grandmothers and my mother are diabetic what is the likelyhood that I will get it?
Question:
Is type 1 the genetic one or type 2?
Answers:
I am sorry to say but it is very possible to be diabetic if your mother, and both grandmother, and great-grandmother are diabetic. does your dad have it? if he does then it is more likely to get almost about 90% but with. but if your dad does not have it the percentage is around 75-80.but you can get lucky that you did NOT receive that part of your mothers trait of diabetes (SP?)
Other Answers:
Both are genetic. You stand a greater risk of developing diabetes than the general population. Get glucose tests on a regular basis (I would recommend once a year if your medical insurance will cover it).
It is type 2 diabetes ("non-insulin dependant", although some ARE on insulin, also called "Adult Onset") that has a strong genetic component.
However, this genetic component is not Mendelian - in other words, one cannot calculate exact odds of getting it depending on the family pattern, as it is not a single responsible gene (as far as we currently know).
Type 1 used to be the definition for the one where your pancreas was not producing any or enough insulin on its own and type 2 was where you were producing enough insulin, but your cells were resistant to it.
I have recently heard that type 1 is now defined as juvenile - onset and type 2 as adult onset.
I would recommend you asking your doctor for a fasting blood insulin test. This will tell you if you are under- or over-producing insulin. With that information, and the proper diet and exercise, you may never have diabetes, and may prevent a lot of the pre-diabetes symptoms, too, one of which is obesity.
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