Getting Acquainted with Diabetes

What Causes Diabetes? : -

Although the causes of diabetes are still unknown, medical science does know that certain factors contribute to its development. One factor is heredity. You may have a tendency to develop diabetes because other members of your family have it. A child of nondiabetics can become diabetic, however, since the disease may skip generations because of genetic coding that prevents it from appearing in every generation. Stresses that affect the cells of the body seem to set the stage for diabetes in these people. One such stress is extra weight. Obesity, affection insulin utilization, contributes to diabetes. Researchers estimate that 80 percent of the people with diabetes are also overweight at the time they are diagnosed as having diabetes.
Stresses can be emotional or physical, such as surgery or a serious infection, an accident, or emotional shock. Many medication affect the body in a stressful way. Pregnancy also places extra stresses on the body, and diabetes is often diagnosed in pregnant women or women who have repeated miscarriages.
People who develop diabetes, especially Type II, frequently also have high blood pressure; people of old age are more likely to develop diabetes than younger people, and women are more likely to have diabetes than men.