((b) When a crime is punishable, in the discretion of the court, by imprisonment in the state prison or by fine or imprisonment in the county jail, it is a misdemeanor for all purposes under the following circumstances: (1) After a judgment imposing a punishment other than imprisonment in the state prison.
But there is also a genetic basis. In general, if you have type 2 diabetes, the risk of your child getting diabetes is 1 in 7 if you were diagnosed before age 50 and 1 in 13 if you were diagnosed after age 50. Some scientists believe that a child's risk is greater when the parent with type 2 diabetes is the mother.
People with diabetes have an increased risk of dying from cancer compared with those without the disease. It's unclear why this is true. A 2001 study in Diabetes found that women with diabetes were less likely to be screened for breast cancer than those without diabetes; other studies have found similar results.