{"id":4816,"date":"2020-02-22T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2020-02-22T06:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T06:13:14","slug":"breastfeeding-reduces-type-2-diabetes-risk-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/breastfeeding-reduces-type-2-diabetes-risk-in-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding Reduces Type 2 Diabetes Risk In Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source:medicaldialogues.in<\/p>\n<p>USA: A recent study on the journal<i>\u00a0Diabetes Care<\/i>\u00a0has 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.<\/p>\n<p>Gestational diabetes or diabetes during pregnancy is characterized by high blood sugar and occurs approximately in 1 in 20 pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvia H. Ley,\u00a0Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, and colleagues\u00a0examined the association of lactation duration with incident type 2 diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus.<\/p>\n<p>For the purpose, the researchers monitored\u00a04,372 women with a history of gestational diabetes who participated in the\u00a0Nurses&#8217; Health Study II for incident type 2 diabetes over 25 years up to 2017.\u00a0Lactation 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 &amp; Women&#8217;s Health Study.<\/p>\n<p>873 incident cases of type 2 diabetes were documented during 87,411 person-years of follow-up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pasted-from-word-wrapper\">\n<p>Key findings of the study include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longer duration of lactation was associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes for both total lactation (hazard ratio 1.05 for up to 6 months, 0.91 for 6\u201312 months, 0.85 for 12\u201324 months, and 0.73 for &gt;24 months, compared with 0 months) and exclusive breastfeeding after adjustment for age, ethnicity, family history of diabetes, parity, age at first birth, smoking, diet quality, physical activity, and prepregnancy BMI.<\/li>\n<li>Longer duration of lactation was also associated with lower HbA<sub>1c<\/sub>, fasting plasma insulin, and C-peptide concentrations among women without type 2 diabetes at follow-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Longer duration of lactation is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a favorable glucose metabolic biomarker profile among women with a history of GDM,&#8221; wrote the authors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The underlying mechanisms and impact on diabetes complications, morbidity, and mortality remain to be determined,&#8221; they concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3139,2172,113],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-2-diabetes","tag-breastfeeding","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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