Awareness of risk factors for type 2 diabetes in women with current and former gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): Implications for future primary diabetes prevention

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• 作者：Aleida Rivas ; Mark L ; on ; Trudy Gaillard ; Dara Schuster ; Kwame Osei
• 关键词：Gestational diabetes mellitus ; Risk factors ; Type 2 diabetes
• 刊名：Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research Reviews
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：April-June 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：4
• 期：2
• 页码：89-94
• 全文大小：175 K

文摘

Aims

To assess the awareness of risk factors for type 2 diabetes and lifestyle changes that can decrease such risks in women with GDM.

Methods

The study comprised responses to health questionnaires by 319 women: 31 pregnant women with current GDM (CGDM), 88 women with previous GDM (PGDM), 100 pregnant women without DM (PWDM) and 100 non-pregnant women without DM (NPWDM). The CGDM group answered the questionnaires at the initiation and 4 weeks after participating in formal education on GDM. Two types of awareness scores (AS) were established. One AS was about the risks associated with GDM (GDMR), and the other was related to the awareness of lifestyle changes that can decrease the risks of type 2 diabetes (DM2R).

Results

The PGDM group had the highest GDMR and DM2R scores (9.55 ± 2.66) (13.2 ± 2.26) compared with the other groups (CGDM 7.48 ± 3.14, NPWDM 6.10 ± 3.17, PWDM 2.89 ± 2.48) (p < 0.05) and (NPWDM 12.05 ± 2.73, CGDM 11.29 ± 2.45, PWDM 8.27 ± 4.14) (p < 0.05). The CGDM group increased the GDMR score from 7.48 ± 3.14 to 10.54 ± 2.57 (p < 0.0001) and the DM2R score from 11.29 ± 2.45 to 14.04 ± 1.26 (p < 0.001).

Conclusions

Women had limited awareness of risk factors for type 2 diabetes and lifestyle modifications that can decrease such risk of diabetes. AS were higher in women with current and previous GDM after receiving formal education.