NUTR-4550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Blood Pressure, Epigenetics
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Epigenetics is the study of environment and gene interaction: this will cause a change in gene expression and eventually a change in phenotype. What we put into our bodies will effect the genetic expression of certain traits. Example: holocaust descendents: the descendants of holocaust survivors have higher occurrences of type 2. This is probably due to the fact that their genes changed during their imprisonment with prolonged starvation. Dyslipedemia of blood (high cholesterol: pretty straight through all bmis. However, obese class iii people tend to have lower high cholesterol (could be because lipids deposit on organs) Type 2 diabetes: being obese class iii greatly increases the occurrence of this disorder by two. High blood pressure: the greater your bmi, the greater your risk for high blood pressure. Metabolic syndrome: as bmi increases, your risk begins to slightly increase. 4 different organizations gave their data on classifications of different qualifiers for having metabolic syndrome.
