Metabolic status before pregnancy predicts subsequent gestational diabetes
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Cardio-metabolic risk factors such as high blood sugar and insulin, and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol that are present before pregnancy, predict whether a woman will develop diabetes during a future pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.