Diabetes: Who Is At Risk Of Developing It?

Certain persons are at risk of developing diabetes mellitus either because they are naturally susceptible or because other artificial factors exist that precipitate the condition. These people require help that would enable them know whether they are likely to have the disease, and what they must do in order to prevent it.

What puts one at risk?
1. Drugs abuse: The use of certain drugs without the doctor’s prescription could put an individual at the risk of developing diabetes mellitus. Doctors are trained to properly examine individuals before making prescriptions for them. They also are acquainted with the side effect of drugs and the special risk they pose to users. But when individuals take some of these drugs without taking into consideration the dangers they pose to their health they may actually precipitate the disease in their lives. Examples of such potentially dangerous drugs include corticosteroids, thiazide diuretics, etc.
2. Children of sufferers: Diabetes is one of those diseases classified as hereditary diseases because of the likelihood of the children whose parents have had it to also have it themselves. This is because the problem is transmitted through the genes. The chances of such children having the disease are at least 50%. This knowledge enables the children to know that they are at risk and to do all they can to avoid precipitating the condition.
3. High carbohydrate consumption: Consuming high quantities of carbohydrate could put those who are genetically susceptible at the risk of having diabetes. High carbohydrate diets have the ability to make the individual gain more weight and eventually become obese, thereby putting them at risk of having the disease.
4. Obesity: Click Here!">Obesity in most cases reduces the number of insulin receptors on the cells thereby making the insulin secreted to the ineffective or insufficient.

What Then Should You Do?

There are ways you could help yourself prevent this disease from setting into your life. Preventing this condition means adding more years to your life. Some of the things you could do include.
1. Stop abusing drugs: Don’t take any drug without the doctor’s advice. This ensures you do not accidentally take those drugs that would endanger your life.
2. Know you family’s medical history: Adequate knowledge of your family’s medical history would enable you have an idea whether any member of your family has suffered from diabetes in the past or if any is suffering it in the present. Such knowledge would determine what you do to prevent it in your own life.
3. Prevent obesity: Since obesity is one of the known precipitating factors, you must do everything to prevent it. You have to consume less carbohydrates and fats. You should do exercise to burn the excess calories in your system.