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 usually involves having the pregnant woman consume a pre-mixed drink with 50 grams of glucose, or sugar, and then testing her blood sugar one hour later. If her blood sugar...
Special Guest Series by Missy Foy In its international manual of medical diagnoses, the World Health Organization defines gestational... Read more »
Read Missy's last post, How Do I Know if I Have Gestational Diabetes? Gestational diabetes was only added to the World Health... Read more »
Gestational diabetes (GDM) is the development of diabetes during pregnancy; it is associated with an increased risk of problems for both... Read more »
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... Read more »
A strong new report in the journal Diabetes Care illustrates why it's so important to control gestational diabetes. Uncontrolled blood... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women who experience diabetes while they're pregnant are significantly more likely to develop type 2 diabetes following the... Read more »
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy. Diabetes is when your blood glucose level is too high. According to the National... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? Women who develop a form of diabetes associated with pregnancy should continue receiving regular checkups for diabetes after... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We may finally know why five-percent of women develop diabetes while they are pregnant. New research from the Stanford... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other serious birthing problems... Read more »
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