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    Up To Half Of Gestational Diabetes Patients Will Go On To Develop Type 2 Diabetes

    Women who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes during pregnancy face a significantly higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in the future, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).. The...
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    Gestational Diabetes Risk Associated With Antipsychotic Drugs During Pregnancy

    Women who take antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy are more likely to develop gestational diabetes, say researchers. The study, conducted by Robert Bodén. M.D., Ph.D., of the Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and...
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    Gestational Diabetes In African-American Women Increases Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes

    African American women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus during pregnancy face a 52 percent increased risk of developing diabetes in the future compared to white women who develop GDM during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the journal Diabetologia...
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    Number Of Women With Gestational Diabetes Underestimated

    A new study claims that twice as many women as previously thought develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy. The research shows that 16 per cent of women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy compared to previous estimates that only 8 per cent develop the condition. The findings of...
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    Sugary Cola Drinks Linked For First Time To Higher Risk Of Gestational Diabetes

    Researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that...
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    I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at 29 weeks, my level was 78...

    ...about 2 hrs after dinner, too low? I really have not received detailed info as to what to look for. I know that fasting should be below 90 and after meals below 120, today my levels have been on the lower side F-85, B-114, L-96 and D-78, but the lunch and dinner were taken two hours the...
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    Insulin dependant gestational diabetes.....?

    I am thinking of a third pregnancy after already having gestational diabetes with my first two pregnancies the second pregnancy worse then the first.... i would like some information regarding the diabetes staying with me the more pregnancies i have and whether there is a chance i may have to...
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