Gestational diabetes associated with incident diabetes in childhood and youth
Indicators of childhood- and youth-onset diabetes may be useful for early detection of diabetes; there is a known association between composite exposure of parental type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus with childhood- and youth-onset diabetes. Researchers examined associations between gestational diabetes mellitus and incidence of childhood- and youth-onset diabetes in offspring. Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with incident diabetes in offspring during childhood and adolescence.