Diabetes can creep up on us as we get older without us even realizing it. So it is important to know what the type 2 diabetes symptoms are, especially if you are in one of the risk groups for developing this disease.
It may be hard to face the fact that you are entering, or in, middle age. Middle age on its own is only a small risk factor for developing diabetes but it is the time of your life when you really need to sit up and take notice of your body and what you are doing to it.
Chances are for the first 25-30 years of your life you never once worried about what you ate and you never struggled with your weight. From age 30-40 people eat the same but do a lot less exercise so that is when weight starts to accumulate usually. If you ignore your weight then you are increasing the chances of you developing diabetes.
Age – type 2 diabetes is much more likely to develop in middle aged or elderly people. Until recently there were virtually no children or adolescents with type 2, which is why type 1 diabetes is often called childhood diabetes. Sadly enough it is possible and even common for people of all ages to develop type 2, even children, especially if they are very overweight.
Do you have high blood pressure already? Well then you are increasing your risk for diabetes. This is another one of the illness that can be improved so much just by reducing your weight. If you are clinically obese then diabetes and hypertension together could very well be reducing your life span.
Whilst you can’t do anything about your age, you can do something about your weight. Just reducing your body weight will help reduce your hypertension and the chances of you developing diabetes in later life.
Certain endocrinological diseases – if you suffer from certain other conditions including metabolic syndrome or Cushing’s disease, there is an increased risk of developing diabetes.
Realistically none of us can really know for certain if we will develop diabetes it can be helpful to know most of the Causes of Diabetes that we can control. Diabetes is becoming more common all the time but there are things you can do to reduce your risk of developing it.
