Women who develop gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies are much more likely to get it during additional pregnancies, according to a study from Kaiser Permanente.
When compared to women without gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, women who did develop the condition during their first pregnancy but not during their second pregnancy were 630 times more likely to develop gestational diabetes during their third pregnancy.
Researchers examined data from 65,132 women in Southern California that gave birth between 1991 and 2008 for this study. This risk was even more pronounced – 25.9-fold – in the third pregnancy for women who developed gestational diabetes during both their first and second pregnancies. The risk of the condition recurring was substantial among women of Hispanic and Asian / Pacific Island descent. Gestational diabetes was also more likely to occur in women over the age of 30 or who had longer intervals between each pregnancy.
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