Type 2 diabetes risk factors depend a lot on your routine lifestyle and how you live your day to day life. Little changes can go a long way to reduce your risk and help you escape your diabetic future.
The experts at Capitol Hospital will be discussing these risk factors and how to change your habits related to these risk factors for a better tomorrow.
OVERWEIGHT
The biggest elephant in the room when the risk factors for diabetes are concerned is Overweight. One usually doesn’t oversee the ill effects of overweight and obesity except for a change in clothing. But overweight and obesity can make you susceptible to many diseases like cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart conditions.
The more obese your body, the more resistance is there in the cell tissues to the insulin which is produced. The statistics claim 90% of the population suffering from diabetes as obese or overweight.
INCREASE IN AGE
Increase in our age is another risk factor when it comes to type 2 diabetes. People become more prone to diseases because of old age. As you get old, the pancreas of your body ages too and it is not able to produce insulin in an efficient manner as it did when you were younger. The cells of our body too are not able to take the insulin in an effective manner due to age.
The overweight criterion too diminishes with age.
A person who is thin and old can develop diabetes too because of the old age.
HISTORY OF DIABETES IN FAMILY
The genes passed from your parents also play a part in your type 2 diabetic risk. You are at a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes if your parents passed you those genes.
GESTATIONAL DIABETES
This type of diabetes is found in pregnant women. Women with no history of diabetes, acquire high sugar level in blood when pregnant. The condition can improve or cure itself when the woman is no longer pregnant. But few women continue to have diabetes even when they are not pregnant.
LIFESTYLE
Lifestyle plays an important role in determining your risk of type 2 diabetes. These 9 to 5 sitting jobs in office and the inactivity of the body that comes with it increases your risk of type 2 diabetes. This inactivity often leads to weight gain. This weight gain too increases your risk of type 2 diabetes. But all this can be changed and your risk can be reduced by exercising regularly and burning the excessive fat in your body.
