A study conducted in Canada shows that women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy are likely to develop type II diabetes post-pregnancy. With the help of the study researchers are going to make a more robust estimate of the risk of developing type II diabetes after gestational diabetes than in previous studies.

 

In the study nearly 19% of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy developed type II diabetes after pregnancy. Denice Feig, MD, of the University of Toronto, the leading researcher said that it has been a large, and population based study. Some researchers opined that it may help professionals in counseling pregnant women and targeting potential one’s.

 

He concluded that he found that diabetes developed within 9 years after the index pregnancy in 18.9% of women with previous gestational diabetes; this rate was much higher than the rate among women without gestational diabetes (2%). However, the study does not include other factors such as the effect of ethnicity, obesity and level of fasting glucose during pregnancy which causes diabetes