Measurement of serum CRP concentrations, therefore, does not appear to provide additional benefit in estimating diabetes risk in women who had GDM.
The discrepancy between our study and the findings of Pradham (11), in which CRP concentrations were independent predictors of diabetes in healthy middle-aged women may reflect the fact that the women in our study had a higher a priori risk for diabetes and were younger than in the study of Pradham.