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….
Read More »Dietary Supplementation May Prevent Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Myo-inositol reduces fetal macrosomia to 0% in patients at risk for GDM….
Read More »The Link between Gestational Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
"As many as half of Asian women who had gestational diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within eight years of giving birth." …
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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 …
Read More »The Added Cost for Pregnancy in Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes can lead to 34% higher maternity costs and complications….
Read More »Gestational Diabetes Diagnoses to Increase by 12%
The new threshold for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes may overwhelm the healthcare system….
Read More »Thyroid Dysfunction in Early Pregnancy Raises Risk for Gestational Diabetes
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….
Read More »ADA: First Trimester Blood Test Predicts Gestational Diabetes with 92% Accuracy
A simple blood test could be incorporated into prenatal care, possibly as early as the first prenatal visit….
Read More »Gestational Diabetes to Rise 50 Percent in Australian Women
The number of Australian women diagnosed with gestational diabetes is set to rise by 50% with the implementation of the new guidelines….
Read More »Gestational Diabetes Issues Portend CV Risk
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and gestational diabetes are associated with a greater predicted risk of future cardiovascular disease.…
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