In light of effective prevention of type 2 diabetes through lifestyle intervention (23–30), similar intervention is likely to be effective in this subgroup of GDM women. Consistent with this, the possibility of preventing diabetes in women with previous GDM though pharmacological intervention has been investigated in the TRoglitazone In the Prevention Of Diabetes study (31), in which troglitazone and later pioglitazone
were used in treatment arms.