如何導致糖尿病？

What are the risk factors of Diabetes Mellitus?

大家若屬以下人士，則有較高機會患上糖尿病：

• 直系親屬患有糖尿病人士；
• 患有高血壓、高血脂人士；
• 曾有妊娠糖尿病史或曾誕下過重嬰兒 (體重4公斤或以上) 的女士；
• 體重肥胖人士(其體重指標BMI超過23)；
• 中年(45歲或以上)人士等。

If you belong to one of the categories below, you are more likely to suffer from diabetes mellitus:

• whose immediate family member suffers from diabetes mellitus;
•  who suffers from hypertension or hyperlipidemia (excessively high level of lipids in blood);
• women who has history of gestational diabetes mellitus (a type of diabetes mellitus that occurs only during pregnancy) or gave birth to overweighted baby (weighting 4 kg or above);
• who is obese (with BMI over 23);
• who is in the middle age (aged 45 or above), etc.