What Is the Average Age of Onset for Type 2 Diabetes?
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at
6:58 pm
Fatal Attraction asked:
The reason I ask is because my father, fathers father, mothers father all had diabetes before they died. I believe this puts me at 75% or so statistically of getting it. I’m 20 years old and I think I might have it but I’m to young and have only a few of the symptoms which I think could be from other things (thirst, excessive fatigue)
The reason I ask is because my father, fathers father, mothers father all had diabetes before they died. I believe this puts me at 75% or so statistically of getting it. I’m 20 years old and I think I might have it but I’m to young and have only a few of the symptoms which I think could be from other things (thirst, excessive fatigue)
So whens its happen? And how do you go about slowing/preventing it in older age.
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Diabetes mellitus is impaired insulin secretion and variable degrees of peripheral insulin resistance leading to hyperglycemia. Early symptoms are related to hyperglycemia and include polydipsia, polyphagia, and polyuria. Later complications include vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy, and predisposition to infection. Diagnosis is by measuring plasma glucose. Treatment is diet, exercise, and drugs that reduce glucose levels, including insulin and oral antihyperglycemic drugs. Prognosis varies with degree of glucose control.
Age at onset of Diabetic mellitus type 1 is less than 30 years and type 2 is over 30 years (average age 45 years and above). To postpone the onset of Diabetes, you should change the lifestyle including the following:-
*Reduce overweight and belly stomach. (The abdominal circumference should be less than 100 cms).
*Control Hypertension. Blood pressure. Get your blood pressure checked every visit. (Target: Below 130/80 mm Hg)
*Cholesterol- Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (good cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL). If you have got high cholesterol in the blood, then reduce consumption of fat and oils in the food.
Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
*Stop cigarette smoking and consuming alcohol.
*Get your Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test done at least once a year. (Target: Below 7).
*Diabetes Education. Know about diabetes get updated regularly.
*Glucose (Sugar) test. Control your blood glucose do self-monitoring as when required. (Target: Fasting blood sugar 60-100 mg/dL; Postprandial blood sugar 2 hours after taking food-Less than 140 mg/dL. Pre-diabetic level-Fasting blood sugar 100-126 mg/dL: Post prandial blood sugar 2 hours after taking food 126-200 mg/dL)
*Health life style. Exercise regularly stay healthy.
Please see the web pages for more details on Diabetes mellitus.
Mine was found after I turned 50. I am also type 2. Keep your weight down, if you are over weight, or fat, by just a few pounds watch out. 2nd Daily exercise, my doctor says 30 minutes walking does wonders. But a good work out is great. Go easy on carbs, not carb free, just find out which foods have high carbs and make a point of eating less carbs and sugars.