Gestational Glucose Intolerance Linked to Metabolic Syndrome

Kudos, fatsos. Gestational diabetes and metabolic syndrome are more common in fat people.

"Even mild impairment in glucose tolerance during pregnancy is associated with a greater risk of postpartum metabolic syndrome, researchers found.

Women who had either gestational glucose intolerance or gestational diabetes were about twice as likely to have metabolic syndrome three months after giving birth than those with normal glucose tolerance, according to Ravi Retnakaran, MD, of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and colleagues.

The findings were reported online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The study raises "the important possibility that [these women] represent a patient population at particularly high risk for the future development of metabolic and vascular disease," Retnakaran said in a statement.

Screening for gestational diabetes may allow for the detection of otherwise unrecognized latent metabolic syndrome and enable the early modification of cardiovascular risk factors, the researchers said.

Further study with long-term follow-up is necessary, they said, to determine whether this would have an effect on rates of disease.

Previous studies have found an association between gestational dysglycemia and increased risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, both of which have also been linked to metabolic syndrome, the researchers said."

You put your unborn kids and yourselves at risk.