Is Diabetes Hereditary Disease

“I’m Linda a 25 year female. Some time ago, my farther was diagnosed with Diabetes. I have heard of that Diabetes can inherit to the children. Will I also get Diabetes in the further? When thinking of it, I always feel very horrified. Please help me.”
Here I want firstly to tell Linda that your worries are not necessary. Diabetes is a disorder caused by multiple factors and its onset of the disease is related to heredity, life style, environment, obesity, mental pressure, virus infection and so on. These factors can affect the onset of Diabetes, but not the absolute cause of Diabetes. Diabetes has a certain genetic predisposition. If the parents are Diabetes suffers, their children have higher risk of getting the disease than those without the disease history, but will not certainly get the disease. The parents just sow seeds (susceptibility genes of Diabetes) into their children. If there is proper soil that has the above factors such as overnutrition, long-term mental tension and so on, the seed of Diabetes will grow up into Diabetes. On the contrary, if the children never give opportunities to the growth of the seed, they will never grow into Diabetes.

Although Diabetes is not a genetic disease, the family members should take some preventive measures and do not give any opportunity to the onset of Diabetes.