Anyone who has been diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes will probably like the results of this study. Especially since they say that if you get GD you have a 40-50% chance of developing diabetes later in life. This study says it's much lower than that.
Gestational diabetes does not increase subsequent diabetes risk
Source: British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2008; 115: 253-60
Investigating whether pregnant women with a history of gestational diabetes are at increased risk for subsequent diabetes.
MedWire News: Expectant mothers with a history of gestational diabetes are no more likely than those with healthy pregnancies to develop diabetes later in life, Canadian researchers report.
Current scientific literature has suggested that pregnancy may increase insulin resistance and accelerate the depletion of beta cells.
To determine the risk factors associated with developing diabetes after a pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes, the researchers led by C Russell (Dalhouise University, Nova Scotia, Canada) assessed the incidence of subsequent diabetes among 1,401 nulliparous women who delivered their first infant between 1989 and 2002.
In all, 251 (17.9 percent) women developed diabetes during the 13-year follow-up period, at rates of 5.9, 14.8, and 22.2 percent at 1, 5, and 10 years postpartum, respectively.
A history of gestational diabetes was not significantly associated with subsequent diabetes diagnosis. But factors that did contribute to a markedly raised diabetes risk included insulin therapy during pregnancy and neonatal hypoglycaemia, which increased the odds of diabetes 4.1- and 2.6-fold, respectively.
"Indicators of the severity of gestational diabetes, defined by insulin use and neonatal hypoglycaemia... are important in predicting a subsequent diagnosis of diabetes," Russell et al conclude.
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Posted: 16 January 2008
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01-23-2008, 01:47 PM
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