Gestational diabetes with diabetes and prediabetes risks: a large observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To compare risks of early postpartum diabetes and prediabetes in Chinese women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy.

Subjects and methods

Tianjin GDM observational study included 1263 women with a history of GDM and 705 women without GDM who participated in the urban GDM universal screening survey by using World Health Organization's criteria. Postpartum diabetes and prediabetes were identified after a standard oral glucose tolerance test. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess risks of postpartum diabetes and prediabetes between women with and without GDM.

Results

During a mean follow-up of 3.53 years postpartum, 90 incident cases of diabetes and 599 incident cases of prediabetes were identified. Multivariable-adj

SUBMITTER: Shen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6009844 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature