A young child develops type 1A diabetes. The parents ask, They tell us this is genetic. Does that mean our other children will get diabetes? The best response by the health care provider would be:

A) Probably not since genetically your other children have a different cellular makeup, they just might not become diabetic.

B) If you put all your children on a low-carbohydrate diet, maybe they won't get diabetes.

C) We don't know what causes diabetes, so we will just have to wait and see.

D) This autoimmune disorder causes destruction of the beta cells, placing your children at high risk of developing

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Philip Weiss

Biology

24 August, 10:26

A young child develops type 1A diabetes. The parents ask, They tell us this is genetic. Does that mean our other children will get diabetes? The best response by the health care provider would be:

A) Probably not since genetically your other children have a different cellular makeup, they just might not become diabetic.

B) If you put all your children on a low-carbohydrate diet, maybe they won't get diabetes.

C) We don't know what causes diabetes, so we will just have to wait and see.

D) This autoimmune disorder causes destruction of the beta cells, placing your children at high risk of developing

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D) This autoimmune disorder causes destruction of the beta cells, placing your children at high risk of developing

Explanation:

Type 1A diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which our immune cell attacks the beta cell of the pancreas which is responsible for producing insulin. So due to low beta-cell, insulin is produced in very less amount which cause diabetes.

This diabetes type can be transferred from parents to children. The chances of disease increase when both parents have type 1A diabetes. Therefore this autoimmune disorder cause beta-cell destruction, placing your child at high risk of developing would be the best response by the health care provider.