What environmental factors contribute to diabetes?

What environmental factors contribute to diabetes?

Anne Peters, MD, FACP, CDE (Professor and Director of Clinical Diabetes Programs, USC Keck School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Is it possible to prevent type 1 diabetes?; Is it possible to prevent type 2 diabetes?; What environmental factors contribute to diabetes? and more...

There probably are a lot of environmental factors that contribute to causing or triggering Type 1 diabetes but we don't really know what they are. We know that there are certain viruses. There are certain subtypes of Coxsckie viruses, for instance, which we know can cause Type 1 diabetes but most of the time we don't know what caused it. We know something in the environment triggered it, but we really don't have any idea of what that is. Pregnancy can cause <a href="http://www.videojug.com/interview/gestational-diabetes">Gestational Diabetes</a>, but that goes away after the birth. Eventually we will figure it all out but we don't know yet.