A study of mothers that gave birth in Jerusalem from l964 to l976 links gestational diabetes to a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer later.

The research, published in the BMC Medicine, showed the gestational diabetes -- a form of diabetes that affects pregnant women who have never had diabetes before -- clearly came first, between 14 and 35 years before the pancreatic cancer. The study also noted women with type 1 diabetes at the time of birth did not go on to develop pancreatic cancer.

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