RELA and gestational diabetes: One could suggest that relatively high IL13 levels observed in the women with prior GDM (FC = 5.30 and FC = 9.86 relative to the GDM and NGT groups, respectively) might counteract leukocyte RELA upregulation in these subjects (FC = 1.20 and FC = 1.58 relative to the GDM and NGT groups, respectively); however, critical appraisal of this hypothesis is required, since no correlation was evident between postpartum IL13 and RELA transcripts.