if a relative developed a disease after I was born, would I be at higher risk to get it? why so?

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I always wondered this, but I never knew what the answer to this was. for example if my relative developed diabetes after I was born, would I be still be at higher risk at getting it. something like that. if that is true, then how does it work? sorry if I sound stupid

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There is a genetic component to diseases like diabetes.

Type II diabetes tends to develop later on in life (though lifestyles and diets are seeing it start to appear in younger and younger people) so a relative developing type II certainly puts you at a higher risk of developing it.

Type I diabetes is normally something you’re born with or develop early on in life so neither you nor your relative is likely to suddenly develop it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The actual biological chance of you having a disease don’t change just because some family member was diagnosed with the condition and it’s hereditary. It’s not like your DNA is changing itself based on that event.

What happened was you received more information, so the doctors revised their estimates of what your mathematical risk is.
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