Diabetes in general is not at all good for a person’s health then it can be expected how bad it would be for pregnant women and babies. Gestational diabetes affects woman and her baby’s health. Many times, its symptoms disappear after delivery, but women are at increased risk of developing post-pregnancy type-2 diabetes later in life.

But if the risk is big then there is a need to have healthcare provider who manages these types of risk. Study’s lead researcher Dr. Girish Rayanagoudar of Queen Mary University, Barts Health NHS Trust in London, said, “Although the majority of clinicians were aware that gestational diabetes is a risk factor, it is worrying that many underestimated or were unsure of the risk”.

The researchers from the Institute of Diabetes Research (IDF) at Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany said they have a way to estimate chances of developing type-2 diabetes post-childbirth.

In the study, they assessed 257 gestational diabetes cases and the patients were followed 20 years following their delivery. It was found that 110 women developed post-childbirth type 2 diabetes during the follow-up period.

Study researchers named BMI and genetic predisposition of great help in making calculations and also questions like whether or not mother breastfeeds her baby and whether or not she was treated with insulin during her gestational diabetes.

On that basis, a point system was created to know a woman’s risk of developing post-pregnancy type-2 diabetes.