Does gestational diabetes mellitus increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in young women?
Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular disease in young women, largely driven by the subsequent development of type 2 diabetes.
Young women with GDM had a substantially increased risk for CVD compared with women without GDM. Much of this increased risk was attributable to subsequent development of type 2 diabetes.
Shah et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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