A recent study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that women who were diagnosed with Gestational diabetes face a much higher risk of going on to develop full-blown Type 2 diabetes.
This study had 843 women participants who were diagnosed with Gestational diabetes between the years 1996 and 2003 at Cheil General Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Almost 12.5 percent of the women went on to develop Type 2 diabetes within the first 2 months of delivering their babies.
In the following decade, the rate of women who were diagnosed with full-blown diabetes grew by 6.8 percent every year.
The lead author of the study, Soo Heon Kwak, MD of Seoul National University Hospital, made the following comments on her team's findings...
"The findings indicate as many as half of Asian women who had Gestational diabetes will develop Type 2 diabetes within eight years of giving birth."
This study was the largest of its kind to study Asian women who developed Gestational diabetes, with the researchers following 370 of the participants for more than a year after the birth of their children.
From the remaining women being studied...
- 105 were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes within two months of giving birth, and
- the remainder did not participate in long-term follow-up visits.
Obesity definitely was a major risk factor for the women who went on to develop diabetes after giving birth, but researchers also found genetic variations that could explain the timing of the onset of diabetes.
Of the women who rapidly developed Type 2 diabetes, they had a significant defect in insulin secretion. In this population, researchers found a variation in the HHEX (hematopoietically expressed homeobox) gene that is associated with Type 2 diabetes.
Of the women who developed diabetes much later after giving birth, they were more likely to have a variation in the CDKAL1 gene, which also has been linked to Type 2 diabetes.
The results of this study conclude much more research needs to be spent into looking at both genetic and environmental risk factors for health practitioners to better predict who will develop Type 2 diabetes.
For now, women who had Gestational diabetes should undergo regular blood sugar testing once their baby is born and for at least the two following years in order for them to stand a better chance of managing the disease if they do go onto develop full-blown diabetes.
Also problems can result for both the mother and newborn if diabetes is undiagnosed during pregnancy and it can increase the risk of future children developing congenital disorders.
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