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• 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