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Missy Foy

Missy Foy, Health Guide

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Researcher in History of Medicine and in Healthcare Outcomes

Creating the Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes: A Brief History of Gestational Diabetes Part 2

Be sure to read Part 1 of this series here!   By the early twentieth-century, doctors knew that some women, at that time it seemed to be mostly white women, had sugar appear in their urine toward the end of their pregnancies.  They also knew that this condition went away when the mother gave birth.  In 1954, a doctor in Boston began... Read moreChevron
posted 04/27/2011, comments (0)|
Ann Bartlett

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Wellness Center Owner, living with type 1

Why Type 1 Diabetics Avoid Complications

I've lived with type 1 diabetes for 41 years and without complications.  Probably the one thing I do have is Diabetic Mastopathy, but it's not a major complication that threatens the rest of my life.  I have known other people who have lived by the diabetes book and still developed diabetes complications such as retinopathy, neuropathy,... Read moreChevron
Missy Foy

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Defining and Understanding Gestational Diabetes

Read Missy's last post, How Do I Know if I Have Gestational Diabetes? Gestational diabetes was only added to the World Health Organization's list of diagnostic codes in 1979.  Was this a new phenomenon in 1979?  Physicians had known about diabetes for centuries.  Had doctors just discovered gestational diabetes in 1979? ... Read moreChevron
posted 04/18/2011, comments (0)|
Missy Foy

Missy Foy, Health Guide

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Gestational Diabetes: Know the Symptoms

Read Missy's first post, What is Gestational Diabetes?   Gestational diabetes usually has no symptoms.  It is diagnosed by a lab test called an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.  In the United States, a screening glucose tolerance test is performed between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy.  This initial screening test... Read moreChevron
posted 04/15/2011, comments (0)|
Missy Foy

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Gestational Diabetes: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment

Special Guest Series by Missy Foy   In its international manual of medical diagnoses, the World Health Organization defines gestational diabetes as "carbohydrate intolerance resulting in hyperglycemia of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy."  What exactly does all that mean?  And, more importantly,... Read moreChevron
posted 04/13/2011, comments (0)|