How does adult onset Type I diabetes work? Is it “burnout” of the body’s ability to make insulin? Why isn’t it noticed sooner? Does good lifestyle prevent symptom development?
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Two of my great grandmothers were diagnosed after having four and five children, respectively. I don’t know if there were other triggers, but pregnancy can do it. By coincidence, they both died the year before insulin treatment became available. None of those nine children ever developed diabetes, but it did appear in the next generation where it again was diagnosed in adulthood (those were guys; pregnancy wasn’t the trigger. But something was).
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