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.
Read More »Metformin Alone or With Insulin Safe in Gestational Diabetes
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.
Read More »How To Detect True Gestational Diabetes
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 …
Read More »Periodontal Disease Causes Gestational Diabetes In Pregnant Women
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.
Read More »The Cause of Gestational Diabetes May Have been Found
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).
Read More »Treating Gestational Diabetes Reduces Childhood Obesity
Treating gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy may reduce the child’s risk of becoming obese, according to the results of a new study.
Read More »Gestational Diabetes Linked to Cancer
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.
Read More »Women With Gestational Diabetes Not Tested for Diabetes Postpartum
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.
Read More »A1c Level During Gestational Diabetes Predicts Long-Term Diabetes Risk
High glycosylated hemoglobin levels in women with gestational diabetes are associated with the development of diabetes in the future, new research indicates.
Read More »Sleep Apnea Associated with Gestational diabetes and High Blood Pressure
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.
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