Association of Gestational Diabetes With Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with increased long-term risk of cardiovascular disease but the cardiovascular structural and functional changes that contribute to risk are not well understood.

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to determine whether GDM is associated with adverse cardiac remodeling and endothelial dysfunction a decade after delivery, independent of type 2 diabetes.

Methods

Women with deliveries between 2008 and 2009 were initially selected from a prospective clinical cohort. Pregnancy history was chart abstracted and a follow-up study visit was conducted at 8 to 10 years postpartum. Cardiac structure and function were assessed with echocardiography. Endothelial function was measured with peripheral arterial tonometry

SUBMITTER: Minhas AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11299583 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature