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Your Child's Risk of Developing Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes
Your child has one chance in 17 of getting diabetes if you are a father with diabetes. If you are a female that developed type 1 diabetes before turning 25, your child's risk is one in 25. If you are a mother who got type 1 diabetes after 25, your child's risk is about 1%.Your child is twice as likely to develop diabetes if you developed it before you turned 11. If you and your partner have diabetes, your child has up to a 25% chance of developing.
The presence of diabetes increased the likelihood that your child will have a condition called 2 polyglandularsyndrome. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type 2 is the most common immunoendocrinopathy syndromes. It occurs as an adrenal insufficiency with either autoimmune thyroid disease or type 1 diabetes mellitus happening in the same patient.
A number of other medical disorders occur along with type 1 diabetes, particularly thyroid disease and adrenal gland dysfunction. Patients with diabetes also have immune system dysfunction. If you have polyglandular autoimmune syndrome, your child has a 50% chance of getting type 1 diabetes.
Research is being conducted to find genetic links to diabetes. Type 1 diabetics have been discovered to have the genes HLA-DR4 or HLA-DR3. If you and your child are white and you have one of the HLA genes, your child is at an increased risk. Other genes in other ethnic groups appear to put their children at an increased risk. The HLA-DR9 gene puts the Japanese at a higher risk and the gene HLA-DR7 puts black Americans at a higher risk.
Different people also have different responses to glucose. People with a higher prevalence of diabetes have a different response to glucose than healthy individuals. There are tests to measure glucose response.
A child is more at risk if they have a sibling with diabetes. There is a test that measures your antibodies response to insulin and to islet cells in the pancreas. High levels indicate an increased risk for developing type 1 diabetes.
Your child's risk of developing diabetes
Research points to a behavioral and genetic basis for the development of type 2 diabetes. Many of the cases of type 2 diabetes occur as the result of obesity. The majority of the time, obesity is the result of poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Many of these poor lifestyle habits are learned from their parents.
These is also a volume of data suggesting a genetic basis for diabetes. For instance, if you have type 2 diabetes, your child's risk is 1 in 17 if you were diagnosed before the age of 50. Your child's risk of developing diabetes is 1 in 13 if you were diagnosed after the age of 50. If the mother has diabetes, the child's risk is greater than if the father has diabetes.
Click below for some of our links about diabetes related problems and treatment options.
