Adequate maternal pre-conceptional folate status may reduce the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Commentary on: Li M, Li S, Chavarro JE, et al. Prepregnancy habitual intakes of total, supplemental, and food folate and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study. Diabetes Care 2019;42:1034–41. Rates of GDM are rising worldwide and associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and long-term cardiometabolic risk in mothers and their offspring.1 This large prospective cohort study investigates the association between pre-pregnancy habitual folate intake and the risk GDM.2 The purpose of this study was to …