Health Shared Logo whiteHealth Shared Logo dark
What are the main risk factors for diabetes?
Health Influencersautoimmune diseasesecondary diabetestype 1 diabetestype 2 diabetesislet cellspancreas

What are the main risk factors for diabetes?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses potential risk factors for developing diabetes.

Transcript (auto-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors.

So, it depends what kind of diabetes you're dealing with, you know, because if you are dealing with type 1 diabetes, then it would be predisposition, genetic predisposition to have various antibodies, which is, and in the Northern European descent, vast majority people would have islet cell antibodies, GAL antibodies, zinc transporter antibodies, or IA8 antibodies. And having any form of autoimmune disease, I think would predispose you to developing type 1 diabetes. But also when it comes to type 2 diabetes, then clearly ethnicity, genetics, and also lifestyle would be risk factors. If you talk about other forms of miscellaneous kind of diabetes we were talking about, then it's predominantly driven by genetics. And also lifestyle, previous surgeries or pancreatitis can lead to secondary diabetes.

Comments