Will Diabetes Be Part of Your Story? | Features | CDC

Will Diabetes Be Part of Your Story? | Features | CDC

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Type 2 Diabetes: Family History & Genetics

CDC feature: Will diabetes be part of your story? Know your risk for diabetes and see if it could be a part of your story

National Diabetes Education Program Video:  Preventing Type 2 Diabetes: Maintaining a healthy weight. Losing weight wasn't easy for Latecia, but after seeing her mom live with diabetes, she knew she needed to make changes in her life to prevent the disease

Does diabetes run in your family? Take steps towards better health!

Recent Insights

Susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus—from genes to prevention. 
Marie-France Hivert et al. Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2014;10:198-205

Overlap of genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults.
Basile KJ, et al. Curr Diab Rep. 2014 Nov;14(11):550.

Genetic, nongenetic and epigenetic risk determinants in developmental programming of type 2 diabetes.
Vaag A, et al. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2014 Nov;93(11):1099-108

Genetic polymorphisms of cytokine genes in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Banerjee M, et al. World J Diabetes. 2014 Aug 15;5(4):493-504.

Metformin pharmacogenomics: current status and future directions.
Pawlyk AC, et al. Diabetes. 2014 Aug;63(8):2590-9.

National Diabetes Education Program releases guiding principles for diabetes care, NIH News, Nov 12

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