Risk Factors for Diabetes

Generally, the risk of developing diabetes increases with age. The disease can also affect women during pregnancy, leading to complications for both mother and child. Certain population groups, notably indigenous Australians and some ethnic groups, have higher rates of diabetes.

Many cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented or delayed through simple lifestyle changes that lower the risks of diabetes and other chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. These risks include excess weight, poor diet, inactivity, smoking and too much alcohol.

Reviewed October 2011

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Title:	Metabolic syndrome
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Metabolic syndrome (also called syndrome X or insulin-resistance syndrome) is a collection of conditions that often occur together and can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease. Eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, not smoking and losing weight will reduce your risk of the diseases associated with metabolic syndrome.
Date:	Nov 2011

Title:	Diabetes - check your risk
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Type 2 diabetes - don't be the type to leave it too late. Take the diabetes risk test to find out if you are at risk of type 2 diabetes.
Date:	Nov 2011

Title:	Computer-assisted versus oral-and-written family history taking for identifying people with elevated risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	We know that diabetes runs in families. For this reason, healthcare professionals routinely take family histories to help them identify people who are at high risk of developing diabetes. Patient histories may be recorded manually by using oral-and-wri...
Date:	Jun 2011

Title:	Diabetes - pre-diabetes
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Pre-diabetes is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. Pre-diabetes has no symptoms but there are a range of risk factors including obesity, smoking, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome and high blood pressure. Pre-diabetes is diagnosed using tests for blood glucose levels. Without treatment, about one in three people with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes.
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Lifestyle Modification Programs
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	A key component of the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Program is the ability for a General Practitioner (GP) to refer eligible patients to accredited, subsidised lifestyle modification programs (LMPs).
Date:	Jan 2011

Title:	Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Program
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Prevention of type 2 diabetes program is designed to help delay or possibly prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes by targeting the associated risk factors.
Date:	Jan 2011

Title:	Are you at risk?
Publisher:	Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic)
Description:	Information about the risk factors for developing type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Date:	Oct 2010

Title:	MBS Item 713 - Type 2 diabetes risk evaluation
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The aim of the Type 2 Diabetes Risk Evaluation (MBS Item 713) is to support General Practitioners (GPs) to address the health needs of patients 40 to 49 years of age who are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Date:	Sep 2010

Title:	Australian type 2 diabetes risk assessment tool (AUSDRISK)
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Australian type 2 diabetes risk assessment tool (AUSDRISK) is a short list of questions to help both health professionals and consumers to assess the risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next five years.
Date:	May 2010

Title:	Immunisation and diabetes
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Diabetes is a condition characterised by high blood sugar levels. Some researchers have claimed that certain childhood vaccinations can cause diabetes in susceptible children. However, further studies undertaken around the world have found no evidence to support this theory. Delaying vaccination is dangerous because it leaves young children vulnerable to catching serious diseases.
Date:	Feb 2010

Title:	Prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease: targeting risk factors
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	Cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) account for around a quarter of the burden of disease in Australia, and just under two-thirds of all deaths. These three diseases often occur together and share risk factors, such as physical inactivity, overweight and obesity, and high blood pressure.
Date:	Dec 2009

Title:	Aboriginal health issues - diabetes
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Diabetes affects many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Kidney failure is a serious complication of diabetes. Risk factors include genetic susceptibility, diet, obesity and poverty.
Date:	Oct 2009

Title:	Diabetes: type 2 diabetes testing - myDr.com.au
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Find out who is at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and who should be tested for this condition.
Date:	Sep 2009

Title:	How low to go with glucose control
Publisher:	Australian Prescriber
Description:	There has been a general acceptance that tight glycaemic control will reduce cardiovascular disease, but there is a lack of definitive evidence that outcomes will improve.
Date:	Apr 2009

Title:	Managing the cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease
Publisher:	Australian Prescriber
Description:	Patients with chronic kidney disease have risk factors for cardiovascular disease which are additional to those found in the general population.
Date:	Dec 2008

Title:	Diabetes in culturally and linguistically diverse Australians : identification of communities at high risk
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	The purpose of this report is to identify those groups of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds that have a high prevalence or risk of diabetes compared with the Australian-born population.
Date:	Oct 2005

Title:	Diabetes training manual - for Samoan speaking people
Publisher:	Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:	Bilingual Community Educator Diabetes Training Manual For Samoan Speaking People. Training Manual and Overhead Transparencies (62 pages!)
Date:	Jul 2003

Title:	Diabetes in Aboriginal Australians - myDr.com.au
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	Find out why Aboriginal Australians are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes than non-indigenous Australians.
Date:	Jun 2003

Title:	Diabetes risk test
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	To find out if you are at risk of type 2 diabetes fill in this quick quiz.
Date:	Jan 2003

Title:	One in 4 Australians has or will develop diabetes: study - myDr.com.au
Publisher:	myDr
Description:	An alarming number of Australians and Europeans have diabetes according to research.
Date:	Jul 2001

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