Author’s response to reviews Title: Risk factors associated with the development of postpartum diabetes in Japanese women with gestational diabetes Authors:

3. Background line 18: IADPSG stands for International Association...... not Society. The same refers to List of abbreviations. Response: We apologize for this error and have now corrected it. 4. Results: The first section is unclear and hard to follow. How many women were primarily identified as GDM by the old and the new criteria, respectively, and how many of these had follow-up data in the respective group? Give follow-up data for both groups separately concerning follow-up time and the number of women diagnosed with diabetes in each group (11/116 (9,4%) old criteria and 21/190 (11.1%) new criteria. The results in the multivariate analysis should be adjusted for follow-up time. Response: During the study period, 354 women were diagnosed with GDM, including 136 and 218 women diagnosed under the old and the new criteria, respectively. Among them, 116 (85.3%) and 190 (87.2%) women diagnosed under the old and the new criteria, respectively, had at least one postpartum OGTT. To clarify these results, we revised the first sentence in the Results of the Abstract as follows: