FrançaisDiabetes: Diabetes Causes - What Can Cause Diabetes
What Can Cause Type 2 Diabetes
- A family member within your family has Type 2 diabetes (parent or brother or sister).
- You are overweight.
- You have high blood pressure
- You have had a heart attack or a stroke.
- You have impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glycaemia.
- You suffer from severe mental health problems.
- Your age bracket- if you are over 40, or are over 25 and are Asian, black or from a minority ethnic grouping.
- Your ethnic group- you are five times more likely to have diabetes if you are from a African Caribbean or south Asian background
What Can Cause Type 1 Diabetes
In most cases it is believed that type 1 diabetes occurs because it is an auto-immune condition. What this means is that type 1 diabetes occurs as a result of the body's immune system mistakenly thinking that a natural substance in your body as harmful, and as a result, attacks it.
- Tends to run in the family
- May be caused by a condition of the pancreas called pancreatitis.
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