Type 1 diabetes can be hereditary, however, it can also be related to environmental or autoimmune factors.
1. Genetic factors: Type 1 diabetes is generally a result of multiple genes and factors, and the genetic background is not strong. Vertical transmission from parents to children does not have a high chance of inheritance.
2. Environmental factors: viral infections, including rubella virus, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis virus, mumps virus, and encephalomyocarditis virus, etc., may induce diabetes; chemicals or drugs that are toxic to pancreatic β-cells may also induce type 1 diabetes; dietary factors may also cause type 1 diabetes.
3. Autoimmune factors: the presence of autoantibodies can cause autoimmune damage to pancreatic islet β-cells, causing type 1 diabetes; the imbalance in the ratio of pathogenic and protective T-lymphocytes can also induce type 1 diabetes.
In addition, type 1 diabetes has a tendency to spontaneous ketosis, which will affect the patient’s health, so it is recommended that the patient needs to actively seek treatment, under the guidance of specialists to reasonably control blood glucose.