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Is diabetes genetic? Facts about hereditary risk
1.This article talks about if diabetes is hereditary. It also talks about how diabetes can run through a family, but not through genetics. 2. I chose this link because it talks about how to lower the risk of passing on diabetes and risk factors if you do have diabetes.
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Are you at Risk if you have Diabetes?
1.This article is about if parents should have kids or not and may or may not pass diabetes to their child. 2. I chose this link because if diabetes is genetic, should adults have kids and have a risk of passing the diabetes to their child.
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What is Type 2 Diabetes?
1. It describes the different risk factors that type 2 diabetes has and what to look out for. If you have a sign like above normal blood sugar, you might have type 2 diabetes. 2.I chose this link because it describes the signs of pre-diabetes and how you can figure out if you have diabetes.
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Genetics of Diabetes
1 You can inherit a predisposition and then something in the environment triggers it. The article compares if twins have identical genes and one has diabetes, but the other twin only has it half the time. 2. I chose this website because it describes type 1 diabetes and type 2 with different risks it can have.
diabetes.org
