Parity and risk of diabetes in a Danish nationwide birth cohort

The purpose was to elucidate the association between parity and the incidence of diabetes using national register data.The study population consisted of all Danish women with a singleton delivery in 1982/1983 (n = 100,669), who subsequently had 74,966 deliveries. The included women were followed up via registries until the end of 2006 for subsequent deliveries, diagnosis of diabetes and death/emigration.A total of 2021 cases (2.0%) were...