Gestational diabetes and pregnancy: Type 2 diabetes

Both excessive and inadequate weight gain during pregnancy are associated with significantly increased cardiometabolic risk factors among the children at age 7 years, researchers from Hong Kong report.

Less stringent criteria for gestational diabetes remain predictive of risk for later prediabetes or type 2 diabetes despite identifying a larger number of women, the HAPO FUS investigators report in JAMA.

A European-wide case–control study finds little evidence for risk to the developing fetus if a mother is taking metformin.

Research suggests that maternal diabetes increases the offspring’s risk for autism only if it is present during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

The future risk for developing type 2 diabetes in women with gestational diabetes is particularly high in those who deliver a large for gestational age baby, say researchers.

The only diabetes-related Cochrane review published in February aimed to compare the effect of planned versus expectant births on health outcomes among pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes and their infants, but found no relevant trials to review.

A postpartum lifestyle intervention may help women with gestational diabetes to lose weight following childbirth, indicate results from the 1-year analysis of the Tianjin Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention Program randomized controlled trial.

Research shows that women with a history of gestational diabetes are at increased risk for hypertension and ischemic heart disease, as well as for type 2 diabetes.

Results from the CARDIA study support previous reports that sticking with breastfeeding for longer could reduce women’s future diabetes risk, even for those without gestational diabetes.

Study results suggest that pregnant women with diabetes have a greater risk for adverse birth outcomes than those without diabetes, despite receiving a higher degree of obstetric intervention.

Women with a history of gestational diabetes have a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular disease, which may be modified by healthy lifestyle factors, prospective study data show.

A randomized trial published in The Lancet finds no harm associated with antenatal expressing of breastmilk in low-risk women with diabetes.

The relationship between average blood glucose levels and glycated hemoglobin is altered during pregnancy, show findings based on continuous glucose monitoring.

Women with gestational diabetes have a subsequent increased risk for adverse macrovascular outcomes, even if they never develop type 2 diabetes, report researchers.

Research suggests that women with gestational diabetes who have elevated glycated haemoglobin levels in the third trimester of pregnancy should be closely monitored for the development of diabetes after delivery.