Gestational Diabetes

Children exposed to metformin had larger measures of subcutaneous fat, but overall body fat was the same as in children whose mothers were treated with insulin alone.…

Pregnancy outcomes with gestational diabetes are similar whether women follow a low-glycemic index (LGI) diet or a conventional high-fiber diet, according to a study….

International guidelines on screening for gestational diabetes that will raise the prevalence of the condition have sparked questions over appropriate diagnostic tools and cost efficacy, researchers said.…

ACOG agrees on the approach to screening and diagnosis for GDM in the continued absence of an international consensus on whether the benefits of some screening approaches outweigh the costs.…

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mrs. ORA was referred to a diabetes educator when she developed diabetes at 29.5 weeks’ gestation. Mrs. ORA is a 30-year-old primigravida and is 29.5 weeks pregnant. She was referred to the …

A woman’s cardiometabolic profile predicted the risk of gestational diabetes as early as seven years before pregnancy….

Compared with women whose weight remained stable, body mass index gains between the first and second pregnancy were associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in the second pregnancy….

A common test to diagnose gestational diabetes — a temporary condition which can harm both mother and child if left untreated — also has predictive power for Type 2 adult-onset diabetes, a new Tel Aviv University study finds…. 

Findings suggest associations of short sleep duration and snoring with glucose intolerance and GDM…. 

Researchers found that, among nearly 140,000 women, Asian women had the highest rate of gestational diabetes, at nearly 7 percent. They were followed by Native American women, at 5.6 percent, and Latina women, at 5 percent….