YOUR CHANCES of developing diabetes are higher if you:Have a family history of this disorder. If you have a close relative — parent, sister or brother—with Type I diabetes, your risk of getting it is two and a half times higher than normal. In the case of Type II diabetes, your risk goes even higher — 10 to 12 times more than normal.If one identical twin has diabetes, the other twin has a 62 per cent chance of having it too. The corresponding figure for non-identical twins is only 12 per cent.In a reversal of earlier medical thinking, health researchers to-day believe that Type II (adult-onset) diabetes has a stronger genetic basis than Type I in which the loss of pancreatic cells isthought to be the result of auto-immune processes or viralinfections such as viral hepatitis, German measles, mumps orchicken pox. —Are overweight — 20 per cent heavier than your recommended weight. A growing volume of evidence suggests that it is more specifically those with abdominal obesity who are at risk for Type II diabetes. These are people who store their excess fat on their waistline rather than on their hips.Suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension)Are a long-time smokerAre a woman with a history of deliveries of large babies, usually over 3.5 kg.*62\332\2*
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