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Missy Foy on Diabetes
Wednesday, April 27 2011
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 more
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Missy Foy on Diabetes
Monday, April 18 2011
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 more
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Missy Foy on Diabetes
Friday, April 15 2011
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 more
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Missy Foy on Diabetes
Wednesday, April 13 2011
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 more
