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Diabetes During Pregnancy Skyrockets

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2004

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente have uncovered still more evidence that the nation is gaining weight: a staggering 35 percent increase in the number of women who develop diabetes while pregnant. The condition, known as gestational diabetes, usually goes away after the baby is born.

Familial History of Diabetes, Hypertension Are Potential Predictors of Gestational Diabetes

Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004

Pregnant women with a first-degree family history of type 2 diabetes have a 2 to 8-fold greater risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) than do women without such a family history, especially those who have at least one sibling with diabetes, according to an American case-control study. Furthermore, women who have a sibling with chronic hypertension also have a 2 to 3-fold increased risk of GDM.

Fetus Size, Not Mother's Blood Sugar, Is The Most Important in Treating Gestational Diabetes

Posted: Monday, February 09, 2004

Measuring the size of an unborn baby's mid-section provides a better indication than maternal blood glucose testing of whether the mother should receive treatment for gestational diabetes. If this method were widely accepted, it could reduce the number of women who require treatment for this disease, which is a form of diabetes that appears during pregnancy and can lead to large birth weight babies.

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.