Causes and risk factors that lead to diabetes | healthy care
Causes and risk factors that lead to diabetes
Causes and risk factors for diabetes
Among the main reasons for this sharp increase in diabetes cases:| --- | Obesity.
| --- | Lack of physical activity.
| --- | Changes in food types: Common foods today include prepared foods that cause diabetes, as they are rich in fats and sugars that are easily absorbed into the blood, which leads to an increase in "insulin resistance".
Types of diabetes risk factors
Type 1 Diabetes Factors
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and damages cells responsible for insulin secretion in the pancreas, instead of attacking and destroying harmful germs and/or viruses, as it usually does in normal (healthy) conditions.
As a result, the body remains with a small amount of insulin, or without insulin at all. In this case, the sugar collects and accumulates in the blood circulation, rather than being distributed among the different cells in the body.
The exact physical cause of type 1 diabetes is not yet known, but family history seems likely to play an important role. The risk of developing type 1 diabetes increases in people whose parents, brothers, or sisters have diabetes. There are additional factors, too, that may cause diabetes, such as exposure to viral diseases.
Type 2 Diabetes Factors
In people with "prediabetes" that may worsen and turn into type II diabetes, cells resist the effect of insulin action while the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to overcome this resistance. In these cases, sugar collects and accumulates in the blood circulation instead of being distributed over the cells and reaching them in the various parts of the body.
The direct cause of these conditions is still unknown, but excess fat - especially in the abdomen - and lack of physical activity seem to be important factors in this.
Researchers are still searching for a real and accurate answer to the following question: Why do two "prediabetes" and type 2 diabetes occur in specific people and only one of them.
"Factors that increase the risk of developing diabetes"
| --- | Weight: excess weight defined as BMI greater or equal to 25.
| --- | Genetics: A close relative of a family with diabetes.
| --- | Ethnicity: Certain ethnic groups with a high risk of diabetes.
| --- | Physical activity: Lack of physical activity.
| --- | Hypertension / hypertension: defined by blood pressure values higher than 90/140 mmHg.
| --- | Hypercholesterol: LDL is intended harmful
| --- | High level of triglycerides in the blood: It is one of the types of fats found in the body. Values above 250 mg / dL.
| --- | Polycystic ovary syndrome.
| --- | Vascular diseases: a personal history of these diseases.
| --- | The birth of a child with a large weight: a personal history of women includes the birth of a child with a weight greater than 4.1 kg (the weight of the child immediately after birth).
| --- | Gestational diabetes: a personal history of pregnancy diabetes.
| --- | Glucosylated hemoglobin values: HBA1C greater or equal to 5.7%.
| --- | Glucose tolerance: Impaired glucose tolerance
| --- | Glucose values: People with impaired glucose (sugar) values in post-fasting screening impaired fasting glucose.
When these factors appear - hypertension, hyperglycemia, and lipid in the blood above normal - together with obesity (overweight) a relationship is established between them, together, and insulin resistance.
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