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How to mitigate risk of genetic diabetes?
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Watch Weight/Exercis: Risk of diabetes 2 with one parent with diabetes is 50%, with 2 parents up to 80% or more. This can be reduced by keeping weight normal, avoiding high carb foods and exercising. By far the most important is the body and especially the waist circumference.
Answered 1/5/2015
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Diabetes: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is caused by a combination of varying degrees of insulin resistance/deficiency. Its occurrence is multifactorial: genetic and environmental factors. The most striking environmental risk factors in most patients who develop type 2 diabetes are increased weight gain and decreased physical activity, each of which increases the risk of diabetes.
Answered 12/28/2015
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