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Study Sheds Light On How Oxygen Effects Birth Defects In Diabetic Pregnancy

Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2005

The babies of women with diabetes are two to five times more likely to develop birth defects than offspring of women without diabetes. Study suggests that high blood glucose levels early in pregnancy deprive the embryo of oxygen, interfering with its development

Glycemic Control Fosters Delivery of Normal Weight Infants

Posted: Monday, November 15, 2004

Women with diabetes who maintain strict glycemic control during pregnancy are able to deliver infants that do not differ in weight or body composition from those of nondiabetic women

Maternal Body Mass Linked to Rising Rate of Large for Gestational Age Births

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

Increases in maternal body mass index and decreases in maternal smoking are behind the increasing trend in large-for-gestational-age (LGA) births

Obesity and Diabetes Independently Increase Cesarean Delivery Risk

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

The prevalence of maternal obesity is rising, the authors explain, and pregestational obesity is a recognized risk factor for diabetes, preeclampsia and hypertension, macrosomia, and cesarean delivery.

Important implications for preconceptional counseling of overweight and obese women

Need for Postpartum Screening of Women With Gestational Diabetes by Family Physicians

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2003

Family physicians frequently fail to adequately screen women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Gestational diabetes occurs in about 5% of pregnancies in the United States and "as many as 69% of women diagnosed with GDM are at risk for recurrence in subsequent pregnancies," he said. Additionally about half of the women diagnosed with GDM will develop type 2 diabetes.