Which is a bigger contributor to type 1 and 2 diabetes?

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Diabetes is condition for which exact cause is unknown. But being unhealthy interms of obesity and other comorbid conditions increase the risk of developing diabetes, there are other causes such as family history/ presence of autoantibodies/ polycystic ovarian syndrome etc which increase the risk.

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I've been told to take Uprise D3 60k once a week. I'm wondering if I could take Uprise D3 10k every day instead. Would that be the same or maybe even better?

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