Related: Gestational diabetes may increase the risk of heart disease in pregnant women!

Between 17 and 20 percent of women worldwide develop diabetes when they become pregnant, and gestational diabetes (GDM) only occurs during pregnancy and usually disappears as the pregnancy ends.
But a large number of clinical data show that even though most GDM patients return to normal sugar metabolism after childbirth, the risk of type 2 diabetes increases significantly after childbirth, and the risk of premature or miscarriage of the fetus increases, often accompanied by other complications.
recently, the CARDIA (Young Coronary Artery Risk Development) research team published a research paper entitled "Diabetes when pregnancy is tied to heart trouble later in life" in The University of China.
analysis of patient data, the team found that gestational diabetes increases a woman's risk of heart disease in middle age.
In the study, researchers surveyed thousands of participants from multiple regions over a 25-year period who had experienced at least one pregnancy, followed them over a 25-year period and observed their coronary artery calcification (CAC).
(CAC, an indicator of vascular sclerosis that can be used to predict the likelihood of heart disease) between 1985-1986 and 2010-2011, 139 of the women who gave birth had gestational diabetes and 994 did not have the disease.
records show that the former had complications (34) in about a quarter of patients (34) even though blood sugar levels returned to normal after childbirth, while only 15 percent (149 people) had coronary artery calcification in the latter.
of tulle arterial calcification in women in the 2000s and control group showed a link between gestational diabetes and heart disease risk, but no clear causal link has been established between the two.
may cause blood vessels to change, promoting atherosclerotic plaque formation through various mechanisms such as insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion, leading to cardiovascular disease, according to researchers.
khadijah Breathett, a cardiologist at the University of Arizona School of Medicine in Tucson, said it was comforting that most women with gestational diabetes did not develop coronary artery calcification, despite the frustrating association. In general, the probability of tulmonary artery calcification in the
disease group (gestational diabetes) and in the control group women was significantly greater than in the non-diseased group, and the effect on mothers and children was far-reaching, so it is particularly important to control blood sugar during pregnancy, and women with gestational diabetes should pay more attention to their heart health after child-rearing.