Gestational Diabetes

The addition of glyburide as an oral medication may improve the outcome of gestational diabetes in women who struggle with insulin dosing….

A new study tested the use of low carbohydrate medical nutrition for the initial treatment of gestational diabetes compared to a control diet…. 

Researchers looking at over 100,000 pregnancies find that gestational diabetes is one of the greatest risks for delivering a large-for-gestational age baby….

Myo-inositol reduces fetal macrosomia to 0% in patients at risk for GDM…. 

"As many as half of Asian women who had gestational diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within eight years of giving birth." …

 Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), which is maternal hyperglycemia that arises primarily during the third trimester of pregnancy, is usually diagnosed at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation with an oral glucose challenge. Women who have risk factors for gestational diabetes, however, may have this test earlier in the pregnancy. Using …

Gestational diabetes can lead to 34% higher maternity costs and complications….

The new threshold for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes may overwhelm the healthcare system….

Women with high thyroid-stimulating hormone levels and thyroid autoimmunity in early pregnancy have a fourfold risk for developing gestational diabetes and a threefold risk for delivering low-birth-weight neonates…. 

A simple blood test could be incorporated into prenatal care, possibly as early as the first prenatal visit….