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Interventional mediation analysis was used to estimate how two mechanistic pathways, depression and pre-pregnancy BMI, mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and GDM across five previously identified adversity trajectory groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>4779 women were diagnosed with GDM between 2004 and 2018, corresponding to a 2.3% absolute risk of GDM. Compared to those who experienced low adversity in childhood, we estimated that those who experienced early material deprivation could have a 0.12% [95% CI 0.10, 0.14] reduction in absolute GDM risk by intervening on BMI and equalising its distribution to that of mothers in the low adversity group. We found no evidence of a reduction in risk if depression were similarly intervened on. For those in the high levels of adversity group no evidence of mediation was found.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Intervening on pre-pregnancy BMI might potentially reduce the risk of GDM for mothers in some of the adversity groups, whereas intervening on depression seems to have little impact. 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