Childbearing Increases Chance Of Developing The Metabolic Syndrome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922162305.htm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2009) — Childbearing is associated directly with future development of the metabolic syndrome - abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease risk factors - and for women who have had gestational diabetes, the risk is more than twice greater, according to a study co-authored by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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