Tool Calculates Postpartum Diabetes Risk: Analyzes four risk factors for women with gestational diabetes A point system can calculate the risk of subsequent diabetes for women who had gestational diabetes when they delivered a baby, according to researchers. They devised the system after analyzing data from 257 women with gestational diabetes 20 years of follow-up after delivery. The score takes into account four factors- insulin treatment during pregnancy, family history of diabetes, body mass index (BMI) in early pregnancy, and lactation -- that have all been shown in other studies to affect the risk of postpartum diabetes, wrote the authors, who were led by Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, MD, at the Institute of Diabetes Research in Neuherberg, Germany.
They published their results in Acta Diabetologica. "The risk score may be attractive for clinicians and general practitioners because it…
