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WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPING DIABETES ?

April 26, 2017developing Diabetes risk factors

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WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPING DIABETES ?

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• Heredity • Obesity /over weight • Sedentary habit • Sudden severe emotional stress, accidents etc., • Frequent pregnancies, multiple gestation • Delivering overweight babies (over 4 kgs) and still birth (Intra uterine demise of fetus) • Gestational diabetes (Diabetes detected for the first time during pregnancy – about 40% of these may develop diabetes within 7 years of delivery). • Drugs – Like Thiazide diuretics, steroids (cortisone) etc., • Acute infections and critical illnesses eg. Jaundice (Hepatitis), Myocardial infarction (Heart attack), Pancreatitis etc. • Toxins – Ingestion of certain substances (accidental or intentional) like organo- phosphorous compounds, or those which may release minute amounts of streptozotocin within the body eg.