History of gestational diabetes mellitus and future risk of atherosclerosis in mid-life: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study.

A previous follow‐up study that examined women once during 18 years after delivery, reported a borderline significant 26% higher Framingham CVD risk score for GDM, but the prevalence of GDM was very low (0.4%), and no subclinical measures of cardiometabolic risk factors, or measures of early atherosclerosis were reported. 40 Women who develop GDM exhibit pancreatic beta cell defects resulting in insufficient insul

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