Lactation Duration and Progression to Diabetes in Women Across the Childbearing Years: The 30-Year CARDIA Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Lactation duration has shown weak protective associations with incident diabetes (3%-15% lower incidence per year of lactation) in older women based solely on self-report of diabetes, studies initiated beyond the reproductive period are vulnerable to unmeasured confounding or reverse causation from antecedent biochemical risk status, perinatal outcomes, and behaviors across the childbearing years.

Objective

To evaluate the association between lactation and progression to diabetes using biochemical testing both before and after pregnancy and accounting for prepregnancy cardiometabolic measures, gestational diabetes (GD), and lifestyle behaviors.

Design, setting, and participants

For this US multicenter, community-based 30-year prospective cohort study, there

SUBMITTER: Gunderson EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885916 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature