What Are Gestational Diabetes
Straight from the Womb: Are we dooming our children?
A study evaluating the risks of maternal glycemia related to the risk of obesity in childhood was just published in Diabetes Care by the American Diabetes Association. This study evaluated maternal glycemia using the universal gestational diabetes mellitus screening from two different multiethnic, geographically separate populations. There were 9,439 mother-child pairs that were included in the analysis for this study.
The key finding was that an increasing hyperglycemia was associated with an...
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Expert & Community Posts
Gestational Diabetes: Control It For Your Child's Sake
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...Care illustrates why it's so important to control gestational diabetes. Uncontrolled blood sugar... Read more »
Postpartum Depression
By Deborah Gray , Health Expert...of standard prenatal care, just as screening for gestational diabetes is right now. And in the... Read more »
A1c Accuracy
By Gretchen Becker , Health ExpertThe hemoglobin A1c test, usually referred to simply as the "A1c," can be accurately translated into... Read more »
Diabetes Risk during Pregnancy
By Deanne Stein , Health Expert...necessary because it is common for some women to develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy.... Read more »
Types of Diabetes: are there more than two?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...have defined 'type 3 diabetes' as, among others, gestational diabetes, insulin-resistant type 1... Read more »
Health Guide
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
What is gestational diabetes mellitus?Pregnancy has typically been viewed as a statement of health, as it should be. In the midst of morning sickness, heartburn, exhaustion, and the excitement of... Read more »Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy. Diabetes is when your blood glucose level is too high. According to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, between three... Read more »Gestational diabetes
...risk factors and prenatal screening at 24 to 28 weeks of pregnancy will lead to early detection of gestational diabetes. Read more »Gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity that starts or is first recognized during pregnancy. Alternative Names Glucose... Read more »Gestational diabetes
... An oral glucose tolerance test between the 24th and 28th weeks of pregnancy is the main test for gestational diabetes. Read more »Images
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Gestational Diabetes Warrants Post Pregnancy Care
June 10, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? Women who develop a form of diabetes associated with pregnancy should continue receiving regular checkups for diabetes after... Read summary »
Type 2 Diabetes Often Follows Gestational Diabetes
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Weight Gain During Pregnancy
November 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Gaining too much weight during pregnancy may be harder on your baby than you think. A new report from the Kaiser Permanente... Read summary »
How Gestational Diabetes Develops
May 02, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We may finally know why five-percent of women develop diabetes while they are pregnant. New research from the Stanford... Read summary »
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