Women With History Of Anxiety Or Mood Disorder In Two Years Before Pregnancy May Have A Moderately Increased Risk For Developing Gestational Diabetes

“Women with a history of anxiety or mood disorder in the two years before pregnancy had a moderately increased risk for developing gestational diabetes vs. women who did not have an anxiety or mood disorder,” researchers concluded after assessing “administrative data from six databases from the Alberta Ministry of Health – the discharge abstract database, ambulatory care database, physician claims database, Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan registry, the vital statistics database and the 2006 census dataset – as well as all delivery data from the Alberta Perinatal Health Program between April 2000 and March 2010 (n = 253,911 with 373,674 pregnancies).” The findings were published online Nov. 9 in Diabetic Medicine. https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/diabetes/news/in-the-journals/%7B6d384558-30e4-4e2f-9d67-c472e421eac0%7D/mood-anxiety-disorders-before-pregnancy-may-influence-gestational-diabetes-risk