Family History of Diabetes Doubles Women’s Risk

You can’t escape your genes. No matter how healthy you are, your family history is always a factor. Thanks mom and dad! Ugh.

That even includes things like diabetes risk.

A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care found that women with diabetes in their family have double the risk of developing the disease.

Researchers examined data on 73,227 women spanning a 20 year period, where 5,101 developed type-2 diabetes.

Findings showed women with at least one parent or sibling with diabetes had more than two-fold the risk of type-2 diabetes.

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