Prevalence of Clinical and Pre-Clinical Obesity at Six Months Postpartum Following Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: A number of initiatives have refocused attention from obesity to adiposity-related organ dysfunction. In this prospective observational study, we examined this paradigm postpartum. Methods: At King's College Hospital, London, UK, we invited for review by six months postpartum, consecutive women with GDM (N = 1442, September 2023-August 2025) and without GDM (N = 646, January 2025-August 2025). Those with excess adiposity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m² and waist-to-height ratio > 0.5) were assessed for organ dysfunction, using criteria from a recent Commission: anovulation, metabolism or renal clusters, raised blood pressure, or elevated end-diastolic left ventricular filling pressure. Multiple regression determined predictors of adiposity-related organ dysf

SUBMITTER: Gomez Fernandez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12845492 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature