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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Women with gestational diabetes at risk of type 2 diabetes
August 21st, 2008
Women with gestational diabetes are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, with almost 20% of women developing the condition within 9 years of pregnancy, found a large, population-based study of 659,000 women published in CMAJ. The study, http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg229.pdf, conducted by a group of researchers from the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences, looked at 21,823 women diagnosed with gestational diabetes and examined follow up records up to 9 years. They found the rate of diabetes increased rapidly in the first 9 months after delivery, peaking at 9 years. "In this large,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-21)
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