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It is so important to know about type-2 diabetes risk factors, so thus if you have one or some of these risk factors you can consider getting a diabetes test immediately for better prevention by asking and discussing more with your doctor!
Fortunately, unlike type-1 diabetes, there are some modifiable risk factors of type-2 diabetes that can be helpful enough to lower your risk. Although you have type-2 diabetes risk factors but with a healthy lifestyle approaches, a proper diabetes diet, and if necessary you can use a helpful diabetes medication (talk with your doctor for more detailed information) will be effective enough to manage your diabetes almost similar like other areas of your life!
And don’t forget to keep up to date with the latest & newest information about type-2 diabetes, particularly as you become a health advocate for your own body!
So, what are type 2 diabetes risk factors?
This disease tends to attack in families, meaning it is believed to have a strong genetic connection or link. Some studies found that there may be some genes that believed closely associated to the cause & reason of type-2 diabetes. Read also about type 2 diabetes symptoms!
According to Framingham Heart Study, over past 3 decades, the incidence of this disease has doubled! Unfortunately, there is still no clearly clue for the causes of type 2 diabetes, but fortunately there are some clearly key risk factors that can be used to manage or even lower your chance of this disease.
If you have one or some of type 2 diabetes risk factors then your risk of getting this disease is higher, which means you should be aware more to the health of your body (like by considering to get diabetes test immediately) and do anything all steps that can be helpful to lower your risk.
One of familiar type 2 diabetes risk factors is insulin resistance. It is a condition when the cells of the body cannot respond to the action of the insulin, which eventually will make the body’s cells cannot properly absorb glucose for the energy, and finally will cause the rise of blood sugar level.
Once you learn about insulin resistance, you may be aware more to your health and want to initiate to do some recommended lifestyle changes (like eat right, keep at your healthy weight, and doing adequate exercise (such as walking about at least 30 minutes /day)).
What else risk factors of type-2 diabetes?
- Your chance of developing the disease is high if your sibling or parent has diabetes (a family history of diabetes).
- If you are being overweight, you can increase the fatty tissue in your body, which can give bad effect to the function of insulin hormone in the body. Be careful to the fat in your abdomen, it also can be used for the indicator that your risk of developing the disease is greater.
- The less activity! Adequate exercise will be helpful to keep the sensitivity of your insulin hormone to respond glucose. Moreover, lack exercise also can contribute to the obesity.
- Your chance is also higher if you are over 45 years of the age. In this period, the human body tends to lose the muscle mass & work less tolerant to sugar, that finally can cause obesity easily. Nevertheless, there is also a chance of developing type-2 diabetes in younger adults, adolescents, or even in children.
- Other type-2 diabetes risk factors include; (a) you are drunker (have high alcohol intake), (b) have blood pressure, (c) high cholesterol, and (d) gestational diabetes in your pregnancy (for women, it usually occurs in the 3rd trimester). Even the risk of type-2 diabetes is also higher in certain ethnicity background (particularly such as Japanese Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans may have higher chance than non-Hispanic whites).
