A client's father has type 1 diabetes mellitus. The client asks if she is in danger of developing the disease as well. Which is the nurse's best response?
a. "Your risk of diabetes is higher than that of the general population, but it may not occur."
b. "No genetic risk is associated with the development of type 1 diabetes."
c. "The risk for becoming diabetic is 50% because of how it is inherited."
d. "Female children do not inherit diabetes, but male children will."
A
Risk for type 1 diabetes is determined by inheritance of genes coding for HLA-DR and HLA-DQ tissue types. Clients who have one parent with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk for its development. Diabetes (type 1) seems to require interaction between inherited risk and environmental factors, so not everyone with these genes develops diabetes. The other statements are not accurate.
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