Breastfeeding reduces type 2 diabetes risk in women
USA: A recent study on the journal Diabetes Care has found a direct link between and lower risk of type 2 diabetes. According to the study, women with a history of gestational diabetes who lactate for a longer duration are at a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life.
Gestational diabetes or diabetes during pregnancy is characterized by high blood sugar and occurs approximately in 1 in 20 pregnant women.
Sylvia H. Ley, Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, and colleagues examined the association of lactation duration with incident type 2 diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus.
For the purpose, the researchers monitored 4,372 women with a history of gestational diabetes who participated in the Nurses' Health Study II for incident type 2 diabetes over 25 years up to 2017. Lactation history was obtained through follow-up questionnaires to calculate lactation duration. Follow-up blood samples were collected from a subset of these women at median age of 58 years through the Diabetes & Women's Health Study.
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