How can you contract diabetes?

Answer 1

Juvenile Diabetes is almost exclusively hereditary. Adult-onset (Type 2) diabetes is caused by a combination of heredity, poor diet, obesity, and lack of exercise.

Contact the American Diabetes Association for further information, or see your doctor. Diabetes is a dangerous condition that can lead to amputations, blindness and death.

Answer 2

A family history and age increases the risk for type 2 diabetes.First, certain diabetes risk factors like age, family history, and ethnicity cannot be changed. However, changing other diabetes risk factors by eating a healthier diet and increased physical activity -- with or without weight loss -- may help prevent type 2 diabetes.Being overweight and obese was the single most important risk factor that predicted who would develop type 2 diabetes

Answer 3

there are 2 types of diabetes, and theyre contracted differently:

type 1: no one really knows why people get type 1, theres no known way to prevent it. it is a chronic autoimmmune disease: you have it all of your life.

type 2: people are more likely to get type 2 when they are old, overweight, or African American. it can be cured often through diet and exercise.

Answer 4

Type 2 diabetes cannot be transmitted from one person to another. This is because it is not caused by something that can spread, such as bacteria and viruses. Diabetes is caused when the pancreas cannot produce enough hormones (insulin or glucagon) to properly maintain the blood's glucose levels. However, the child of a diabetic has a higher chance of developing the disease due to genetic inheritance.

Answer 5

Diabetes is not contagious and therefore is not 'spread'. Nobody knows the cause of the condition yet.

Answer 6

It's not transmitted, it is when your pancreas stops working, for no apparent reason. or if itss type 2 it often stops if your old or obese because of over-work.

Answer 7

Diabetes is not a contagious disease but, it is believed that some diseases damage the pancreas to an extent that causes diabetes.

Answer 8

Diabetes does not "spread".