Type I diabetes
A genetic predisposition, or obesity.
To get type 1 diabetes you must inherit a predisposition to the disease but there must also be something in your environment to trigger it. Unlike type 2 diabetes, to get type 1 you must inherit risk factors from both parents. More info can be found on diabetes.org.
Yes, it can be an inherited disease. Among the two types, the Diabetes type 2 is the inherited type of diabetes that is usually passed from generation to generation.
Diabetes Mellitus develops through improper food intake, eating unhealthy food specially sweets and fatty food and lack of exercise.
Genes do play a role in the development of diabetes and causes a person to be born with a predisposition to the disease. A person with both parents to have diabetes have inherit the risk factors for type 1 diabetes.
Stuart J. Brink has written: 'Pediatric and adolescent diabetes mellitus' -- subject(s): Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Diabetes in adolescence, Diabetes in children
Type 2
Yes they can. Let's get a bit more clear about that answer. Parents give you a predisposition towards diabetes. If your parents have diabetes, you need to watch what you eat and how heavy you get. What they can not do is transmit the disease. It is not a communicable disease.
No. Diabetes in not contagious. It is a chronic disease without a vector or transmission. Usually it is inherited or congenital.
Diabetes is not caused by cancer. Diabetes can be inherited, but that would mean that the mother and/or father and/or other ancestors have diabetes.
Genetic Predisposition is a genetic effect which influences the phenotype of an organism but which can be modified by the environmental conditions. Genetic testing is able to identify individuals who are genetically predisposed to certain health problems.
No eating watermelon does not cause diabetes. Eating sugar does not cause diabetes, I think it has to be inherited, but not really sure though. Hope this helped.