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Health Encyclopedia: Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors

Risk Factors

Over 19 million Americans have diabetes; up to 95% of these cases are type 2. In addition, 26% of Americans age 20 and older (and 40% of Americans age 65 and older) have impaired fasting glucose, a pre-diabetes condition that increases the risk for diabetes. According to a 2006 study, a total of 73 million Americans either have diabetes or are at risk of developing it.

Historically, type 2 diabetes usually developed after the age of 40, but it is now also increasing in children. Given...

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Expert & Community Posts

Smoking may be a risk factor for diabetes

By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...that cigarette smoking can cause for people with diabetes (PWD). Among others that have been... Read more »

Guilt By Association: Who Is To Blame For Rising Healthcare Costs?

By Beth McNamara , Health Expert

...everything ranging from divorce to depression to diabetes. With healthcare reform commanding our... Read more »

Smoking

By Deanne Stein , Health Expert

...blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity and diabetes are the six major independent risk... Read more »

Why Quitting Smoking is Good for Your Heart

By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert

We all know that smoking isn't good for our heart, don't we? In fact, it's responsible for more... Read more »

"Your heart disease is 'genetic'"

By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert

...had heart disease?" Sam, a non-smoker with no diabetes who had taken a cholesterol drug... Read more »

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Smoking and Obesity Increase Chances of Erectile Dysfunction

...(which I believe most already have done), but now include obesity with its danger of vascular disease/diabetes, in strongly advising men to avoid diet and lifestyles leading to obesity. The... Read more »

A Matter of Heart

...the woman is under 35 years of age, doesn't smoke heavily, and doesn't have high blood pressure or diabetes.Experts agree that blood clots and heart attacks rise steadily after age 35, so a woman... Read more »

Health Risks of Smoking

...smoked.Children of mothers who smoke during pregnancy may also be at increased risk for obesity and diabetes.Women who want to become pregnant should try smoking cessation aids before they try to... Read more »

High Blood Pressure: Causes

...controls heart rate, blood pressure, and the diameter of the blood vessels.Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes. Hypertension is strongly associated with diabetes, both type 1 and type 2. Kidney... Read more »

Type 1 Diabetes

Long-Term ComplicationsType 1 diabetes reduces the normal life span by an average of 5 to 8 years. However, survival rates are improving in all ethnic groups and both genders. Longer survival rates... Read more »

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