Multiple pregnancies and the risk of diabetes mellitus in postmenopausal women

Objective: We aimed to investigate whether the number of pregnancies during childbearing age was associated with diabetes in postmenopausal women with no history of gestational diabetes. Methods: Our data source was the continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999 to 2014. We selected 9,138 postmenopausal women over 40 years old who did not have a history of gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Logistic regression analyses were applied for the association of the number of pregnancies with diabetes. Results: We found women with ≥4 pregnancies had significantly greater fasting plasma glucose (FPG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), 2-hour plasma glucose, and the Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance than those with two to three pregnancies (all P 
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