Infant’s Gender May Affect Mother’s Risk For Gestational Diabetes, T2D.

reports that an infant’s gender may “affect a mother’s risk for” gestational diabetes and for “type 2 diabetes [T2D] after pregnancy,” according to research published online May 20 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The review of “data from nearly 643,000 women in Canada” revealed that “women who were carrying a son were more likely to develop gestational diabetes.” Meanwhile, the study indicated that “women who developed gestational diabetes while pregnant with a daughter had a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes after pregnancy.”