Dietary quality is associated with lower postpartum weight retention among women with prior gestational diabetes in a sub-high altitude region of China
Jiahui He, Na Wang, Jianqin Yang, Qian Zhao, Yan Tian, Lei Shu, Li Li, Shuhua Qian · 2026
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Women who had diabetes in pregnancy often keep extra weight afterward, which raises their long-term health risks. Jiahui He and co-authors study 141 such women living one to three years past delivery in Dali, a moderately high-altitude region of China. They score each woman's diet quality from a food questionnaire and record how much weight she kept.
Better diet quality went with clearly less kept weight, even after adjusting for many other factors. Each extra point of diet score meant roughly a tenth of a kilogram less, so ten points meant about a kilogram. Activity looked helpful at first glance but lost its link once other factors were counted. Lower starting weight and bigger babies predicted more kept weight. The authors back diet advice tailored to the region.
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| CREATOR | Jiahui He, Na Wang, Jianqin Yang, Qian Zhao, Yan Tian, Lei Shu, Li Li, Shuhua Qian |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |