Does the development of Type 2 Diabetes determine retinal, renal, and cardiovascular outcomes in women with previous Gestational Diabetes Mellitus?
In women with prior GDM, cardiovascular risk is elevated regardless of T2DM development, while microvascular risk is dependent on developing T2DM.
Women with GDM have an elevated risk of cardiovascular outcomes, even in the absence of T2DM. In contrast, microvascular risk emerges only in those in whom T2DM develops.
Retnakaran et al. (2016) studied this question.