Type 1 diabetes is hereditary, type 2 is from not taking care of yourself. I’m sure you know this but many people don’t. My cousin has type 1 diabetes, but too many people only know of type 2. I don’t have any more info on this that hasn’t been said already.

I’m not sure but I’ve been a type one for most of my life and was originally told type 1 is not inherited but my Dad’s Aunt and his cousin’s daughter are/were type ones. So mine is from my Dad’s side and I’m a girl.

Diabetes is a complex disease having both genetic and enviromental influences

How it is inherited depends on the genes associated with DM and as of now there are 350 genes associated with DM

So inheritance cant be predicted

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Diabetes can be heredity and can also be from not taking care of yourself. The don’t eat lots of sweets has nothing to do with it. I had read that it skips so many generations too.

If you are concerned start eating in proportion. Like don’t double up on potatoes, any starches. Food products that are NOT white as bread, rice, potatoes and the such are better for diabetics and normal people too. Whole grains are the best. Exercise is VERY important. If a diabetic, taking one’s blood sugar on a daily basis is important too.

Exercise being a big key is healthy anyway. It helps to keep our sugars down too. Don’t exercise if your sugar is high. It will only increase it. If you are not used to any exercise, take it one day at a time. A 10 minute walk to start with is good and continue a couple times a week. Then increase it to 20 minutes or down the road longer. It depends on the person.

I do not wish this disease on anyone.

Sorry I got long winded!

Diabetes has no sex pattern heredity, every people could suffering from diabetes. It is one of an endocrinopathy disease, it is either inherited or life style. The one with obesity could easily develop diabetes. But if someone who has a diabetes inheritance doesn’t mean he/she will always develop a diabetes someday. It depends on how he/she manage their body weight and lifestyles. The most common form is the type 2 diabetes. The etiopathogenesis is the insulin resistance, the fat tissue in obese person gives a ‘resistance factor’, that contribute to insulin resistance. So the insulin could’t reach the target tissue, and the tissue lost the ability to utilise glucose, the accumulation os the glucose gives rise to diabetes.

Most cases of Diabetes are Not genetically inherited. Diabetes (like all chronic, degenerative diseases) is a product of a poor enviroment (poor diet, over-eating/obesity, inadequate exercise, toxins/heavy metals, etc.) interacting with dozens or even hundreds of susceptible genes. It is the person’s “environment” that primarily determines who gets diabetes.

Diabetes is usually caused by a defect in mitochondrial DNA.

While other DNA is contributed by both parents, you get 100% of your mitochondrial DNA from your mother, and none from your father.

It is definitely inherited. My mother has it, most of her siblings. One of my cousins has it, but my sister, brother and I do not have it. I think it skips around.

I work in a Kidney Dialysis unit so I can tell one thing Diabetes is the number one cause of Kidney Failure and you only have one. So, monitor yourself very close and any sign of problems go see a doctor and head it off at the pass if you can.

Diabetes only affects the kidneys if you are not controling your sugar. So if you eat right and take your meds you can live life just like anyone else!!