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One quarter of the women gained weight and showed an increase in risk factors for diabetes and heart disease. None of these risk factors was present three months after the women gave birth, according to the researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

“This finding helps us advise women about the importance of losing their excess pregnancy weight in the first year after delivery,” Dr. Ravi Retnakaran said in a hospital news release.

“With these results, we can say that failure to lose weight between three and 12 months postpartum will cause blood pressure, cholesterol, and insulin action in the body to move in an unhealthy direction,” said Retnakaran, an endocrinologist at the hospital’s Leadership Sinai Center for Diabetes.

The researchers noted that the study offers firm evidence to support the theory that failure to lose pregnancy weight poses long-term health risks for women, and said future research will include comparing women’s weight and health risk factors for two or three years after giving birth.

The Surprising Health Risk For New MomsĀ  was originally published on elev8.com

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