Some people have a greater genetic risk than others of developing type 2 diabetes. Now, more of these at-risk people are actually developing diabetes than previously.
Type 2 diabetes is often triggered by a sedentary lifestyle or poor diet. At the same time, however, some people have genes that make it much more likely they will develop the disease. In other words, they are far more susceptible to developing diabetes.
“More people with a high genetic risk of developing type 2 diabetes are now developing the disease than they did in the past,” said Vera Vik Bjarkø.
Bjarkø is a PhD research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU’s) Department of Public Health and Nursing. She and her colleagues recently published an article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.