Gestational Diabetes

Many health care professionals suspect that a low glycemic diet may play a significant role in controlling pregnancy-related diabetes, but a recent review of evidence evaluating the effects of diet proved inconclusive.

In pregnant women with gestational diabetes, metformin alone or metformin supplemented with insulin did not increase perinatal complications vs insulin alone, according to the results of a new study.

The study showed that 7% of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes were already diabetic at the time of first visit and were misdiagnosed with gestational diabetes, when they had diabetes. They also found that, a HBA1C level at the first visit of less than 5.3 would not develop gestational diabetes …

A study has found evidence that pregnant women with periodontal (gum) disease have an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes than pregnant women with healthy gums.

Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine may be on the right path of discovering the pathology behind the development of diabetes during pregnancy, commonly known as Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM).

Treating gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy may reduce the child’s risk of becoming obese, according to the results of a new study.

Women who had gestational diabetes when pregnant may be at greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to U.S. and Israeli researchers who said the study was the first to link the two diseases.

Insufficient numbers of women who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy are being screened for diabetes in the first year postpartum, according to a retrospective study.

High glycosylated hemoglobin levels in women with gestational diabetes are associated with the development of diabetes in the future, new research indicates.

Study found that when the women’s weight was taken into account, sleep apnea was associated with a doubling of the incidence of gestational diabetes and a fourfold increase in the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension.