Your Child Has Diabetes
Well, first of all, diabetes is divided into 2 types, known under the name of diabetes type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
If you have a Type 1 diabetes, the probability that your child has the same condition is 1:17. If you have a mother with type 1 diabetes and a child, if you are older than 25 years, then the likelihood that your child is determined with the same condition is 1:25. The likelihood is 1:100, if the confinement of more than 25 years.
The risk that your child is reached, doubled diabetes is diagnosed that it complies with type 1 diabetes before turning 11 If you and your spouse both have Type 1 diabetes, then the likelihood that your child from 1:4 to 1:10.
What is with type 2 diabetes? This type of diabetes has a genetic basis larger than the type 1 diabetes. However, a great influence also comes from external factors such as environment, lifestyle, nutrition, etc.
As a rule, if you have a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes because they are younger than 50 years, then the likelihood that your child has the same condition is 1:7. The probability is at 1:13 if a diagnosis of 50 years.
Some experts argued that the risk of diabetes, their children, whether diabetes is the mother. If both parents have type 2 diabetes, the probability that the child is determined, with the same condition is 1:2.
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