Does frank diabetes in first-degree relatives of a pregnant woman affect the likelihood of her developing gestational diabetes mellitus or nongestational diabetes?
OBJECTIVE
We sought to examine the associations between patterns of family histories of diabetes and a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (hGDM).


METHODS
Parous women participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (n=4566) were classified as having hGDM only, diagnosed diabetes, or neither. Family history of diabetes was categorized as: maternal only, paternal only, biparental, and sibling only. The covariate-adjusted prevalence and odds of having hGDM were estimated.


RESULTS
Compared to women without a family history of diabetes, women with a maternal (odds ratio [OR], 3.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2-7.3), paternal (OR, 3.3; 95% CI, 1.1-10.2), or sibling (OR, 7.1; 95% CI, 1.6-30.9) history of diabetes had greater odds of hGDM, after adjustment for age and race/ethnicity.


CONCLUSIONS
Women with a sibling history of diabetes were more likely to have hGDM than women with other family history patterns.
Kim
Catherine
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Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Liu
Tiebin
T
Valdez
Rodolfo
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Beckles
Gloria L
GL
D000328:Adult; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational / Q000235:genetics*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy
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