A new study in Canadian Medical Journal reveals that glucose challenge test for pregnancy diabetes may also show future risk of heart disease in pregnant women.

It is  particularly important because it can help doctors to start using current screening procedures to identify gestational diabetes in pregnant women who are at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases in future.

Researchers say that heart disease is number one killer of women, while women with gestational diabetes have higher risk of developing heart diseases when compared to those who doesn’t have.

“Women who had an abnormal glucose challenge test but then did not have gestational diabetes had an increased risk of future cardiovascular disease compared to the general population, but a lower risk than women who actually did have gestational diabetes,” co-author Dr. Baiju Shah, of the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, said in a news release.

Source: HealthDay

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