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Pregnancy associated diabetes likely to recur

Pregnant women with a history of pregnancy-related diabetes, also called gestational diabetes, have a higher risk of developing the condition again.

Pregnancy associated diabetes likely to recur

Pregnant women with a history of pregnancy-related diabetes, also called gestational diabetes, have a higher risk of developing the condition again.

Gestational diabetes typically strikes during late pregnancy and is characterised by high blood sugar that results from the body's impaired use of insulin. While it rarely causes birth defects, complications can arise that threaten the health of both mother and baby.
In an attempt to distinguish factors that put women at risk of gestational diabetes, researchers studied the first two pregnancies of about 65,132 women and the first three pregnancies of about 13,096 American women between 1991 and 2008. Approximately 4 percent of the women developed gestational diabetes during their first pregnancy.

It was found that these women were about 13 times more likely to develop it again in their second pregnancy, compared to women without a history of diabetes during pregnancy. Among third pregnancies, the risk of diabetes for women who had two previous episodes of pregnancy associated diabetes rose to 26 times that of women without any history of gestational diabetes.

Looking more closely at the data, it appeared that the most recent case of gestational diabetes was the most influential- about 44 percent of women with a diagnosis in their second but not first pregnancy developed gestational diabetes, compared to 23 percent of those with the condition in their first but not second pregnancy.

Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders had approximately double the risk of gestational diabetes as compared to white women, after taking into account factors such as age and education. The researchers think that diet could play a role in this as the relatively high consumption of rice in the latter two groups could raise sugar and insulin levels, potentially triggering the condition.
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