In women that develop gestational diabetes, the most common metabolic disorder during pregnancy that favors a pro‐inflammatory state, it has been found that iron overload and iron metabolizing disorders are often associated with glucose‐related imbalances.63, 64, 65, 66 Further studies are necessary to fully understand why only GMAW‐MS–exposed cells had significant increases in IL‐6 and IL‐8, since GMAW‐SS also contained Fe, but did not cause increased cytokine production. This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and metabolic disease.