Gestational diabetes & diabetes in pregnancy
Prevalence and concordance of cardiometabolic risk markers and health behaviour among couples after a gestational diabetes mellitus‐affected pregnancy
Authors' conclusion
Detecting GDM in women may serve as an opportunity to identify partners at risk, underscoring the potential of couple-based or family-focused interventions.
Study context
- Population
- Couples assessed 12 weeks after a gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)-affected pregnancy (health examinations and questionnaire data)
- Participants
- 196 couples
- Exposure
- Women after a GDM-affected pregnancy vs their partners
- Outcome
- Prevalence and concordance of cardiometabolic risk markers (overweight or obesity, high waist circumference, metabolic syndrome, impaired fasting glucose [≥6.1 mmol/L], stage 1 hypertension or more [≥130 mmHg/≥80 mmHg]) and health behaviour
- Follow-up
- 12 weeks after pregnancy
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Overweight or obesity: Women
- 63.3%
- Overweight or obesity: Partners
- 71.9%
- Overweight or obesity: concordance (couples)
- 50.5%
- High waist circumference: Women
- 78.6%
- High waist circumference: Partners
- 55.1%
- High waist circumference: concordance (couples)
- 48.5%
- Metabolic syndrome: Women
- 9.2%
- Metabolic syndrome: Partners
- 24.0%
- Metabolic syndrome: concordance (couples)
- 5.1%
- Impaired fasting glucose: Women
- 7.7%
- Impaired fasting glucose: Partners
- 9.2%
- Impaired fasting glucose: concordance (couples)
- 1.5%
- Stage 1 hypertension or more: Women
- 31.1%
- Stage 1 hypertension or more: Partners
- 55.6%
- Stage 1 hypertension or more: concordance (couples)
- 8.2%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Prevalence and concordance of cardiometabolic risk markers and health behaviour among couples after a gestational diabetes mellitus‐affected pregnancy. Diabetes Obes Metab. Published 8 August 2025. doi:10.
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