Type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes: Can the progression be prevented?

Intuitive eating is associated with improved health indicators at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

“…Despite their future diabetes risk, most women with GDM have normal glucose values after delivery (Retnakaran et al, 2010), but up to 50% have prediabetes within 12 months as observed in our sample and that of another study (Huopio et al, 2014). It is important to prevent further glucose intolerance in these GDM subgroups with prediabetes and overweight/obese who are at higher risk of progressing to diabetes (Feig, 2018). In the subgroup of women with prediabetes or with overweight/ obese, we found that IE was associated with fasting glucose in the longitudinal analyses and with weight retention, BMI, and/or fasting glucose in the cross-sectional analysis.…”

“…Indeed, about 48 percent of women with GDM are at risk of prediabetes (Huopio et al, 2014) and between 20 and 60 percent of women with GDM develop diabetes 5 to 10 years after delivery (Buchanan et al, 2012). Overall, the conversion of GDM to prediabetes and subsequent development of diabetes is well known Intuitive eating is associated with improved health indicators at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus and continues to be on the rise, making GDM a significant risk factor of type 2 diabetes (Feig, 2018).…”