“…This observed increase in diabetes risk after Caesarean section delivery could not be explained by the confounding influence of birthweight, gestational age, maternal age, birth order, maternal diabetes or breastfeeding. Table 1 b Breast-feeding was categorised as breast-feeding at discharge from hospital [18,32], any breast-feeding [15,25,27], breast-feeding for approximately 3 months or more [30,40,43] and breast-feeding for approximately 4 months or more [37][38][39] Ref. cat., reference category…”