Gestational diabetes with diabetes and prediabetes risks: a large observational study

Yun Shen, Peng Wang, Leishen Wang, Shuang Zhang, Huikun Liu, Weiqin Li, Nan Li, Wei Li, Junhong Leng, Jing Wang, Huiguang Tian, Cuilin Zhang, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Xilin Yang, Zhijie Yu, Gang Hu

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Abstract

Aims: To compare risks of early postpartum diabetes and prediabetes in Chinese women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy. Subjects and methods: Tianjin GDM observational study included 1263 women with a history of GDM and 705 women without GDM who participated in the urban GDM universal screening survey by using World Health Organization’s criteria. Postpartum diabetes and prediabetes were identified after a standard oral glucose tolerance test. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess risks of postpartum diabetes and prediabetes between women with and without GDM. Results: During a mean follow-up of 3.53 years postpartum, 90 incident cases of diabetes and 599 incident cases of prediabetes were identified. Multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios among women with prior GDM, compared with those without it, were 76.1 (95% CI: 23.6–246) for diabetes and 25.4 (95% CI: 18.2–35.3) for prediabetes. When the mean follow-up extended to 4.40 years, 121 diabetes and 616 prediabetes cases were identified. Women with prior GDM had a 13.0-fold multivariable-adjusted risk (95% CI: 5.54-30.6) for diabetes and 2.15-fold risk (95% CI: 1.76-2.62) for prediabetes compared with women without GDM. The positive associations between GDM and the risks of postpartum diabetes and prediabetes were significant and persistent when stratified by younger and older than 30 years at delivery and normal weight and overweight participants. Conclusions: The present study indicated that women with prior GDM had significantly increased risks for postpartum diabetes and prediabetes, with the highest risk at the first 3–4 years after delivery, compared with those without GDM.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-58
Number of pages8
JournalEuropean Journal of Endocrinology
Volume179
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2018

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This study is supported by the grant from European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD)/Chinese Diabetes Society (CDS)/Lilly programme for Collaborative Research between China and Europe, Tianjin Women’s and Children’s Health Center and Tianjin Public Health Bureau. Dr Hu was partly supported by the grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK100790) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54GM104940) of the National Institutes of Health. Dr Cuilin Zhang is supported by the Intramural Research Program of Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation, review or approval of the manuscript and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 European Society of Endocrinology.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Endocrinology

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article
  • Observational Study

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