TITLE:
Women Who Develop Diabetes Later in Life Have Diabetes-Associated Complications during Preceding Pregnancies
AUTHORS:
Ulrika Moll, Håkan Olsson, Mona Landin-Olsson
KEYWORDS:
Gestational Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Pregnancy Outcome, Prenatal Care, Retrospective Study, Fetal Macrosomia, Large for Gestational Age, Prediabetes
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Diabetes Mellitus,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
11,
2014
ABSTRACT: Aims:The aim of this study was to explore
the outcome of previous pregnancies in women who later developed diabetes.
Method: A Swedish population based cohort of 23,524 women from 1990 aged 45 -
85 yr in 2000 when they self reported health status in a questionnaire. To
identify which women who delivered we matched it towards the Swedish Medical
Birth Register (SMBR). We identified 14,856 women who appeared in both
registers and a total of 30,559 new birth registrations. Among these women 216
had developed diabetes after their pregnancy (ies) and additional twelve women
were reported to have gestational diabetes in SMBR. These 228 women and their
455 pregnancies were compared with women without diabetes. Results: Women who
developed diabetes later in life were already heavier before the pregnancy
(ies) (69.2 ± 13.9 vs. 63.2 ± 10.3 kg; p