Diabetes is a disease that needs regular monitoring. Gestational diabetes carries the same symptoms and problems as other forms of diabetes not associated with pregnancy. The body loses the ability to effectively handle food sugars and insulin development when pregnant.
Gestational Diabetes Invites Future Heart Disease
It seems gestational diabetes causes the carotid artery wall to thicken, a condition that may trigger heart disease.
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Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a condition unique to pregnant women. During pregnancy, the body becomes intolerant to glucose causing a temporary condition similar to mild forms type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
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What are the Symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)?
Many women have only a few and others have many symptoms. These are some of the symptoms of PCOS.
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Wrong Foods and Time On The Menu Lead To Obesity and Diabetes
A recent study indicates eating big meals at night, especially when they’re meals big in unhealthy foods, throws off the body clock.
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Pregnancy Complications With Obese Mothers
Obesity is a growing epidemic thought to be the cause of various growing
health conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and premature
death.
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Premature Births and Risk of Heart Disease for Mom
When a pregnant woman gives birth to an infant that is small for gestational age, she is at increased risk of heart disease, according to new research published in PLoS One.
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Fertility in People with Childhood-onset Type 1 Diabetes
The Hjelt Institute in Finland recently completed and published a cohort study of 2,307 women and 2,819 men with type 1 diabetes. The purpose of the study was to determine the fertility outcome of patients living with child-onset diabetes.
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Diabetes Could be Rooted in Food Toxins Consumed by Infants
Toxins are present in many of the foods we consume every day. One food toxin of particular interest is Advanced Glycation End (AGE). This food toxin is present in breast milk and commercial infant formulas.
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Replace One Sweet Beverage Daily, Reduce Diabetes Risk
The findings of a study of dietary impact indicate how important it is for people who regularly consume sweet beverages to replace just one serving a day to reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes.
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High-Fiber Diet Reduces Diabetes Risk
Diabetes can often be avoided, delayed, or reversed by consuming a diet high in fiber.
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Mom's Diabetes May Affect Fetal Mortality
Women with diabetes are at four and a half times higher risk for death of their unborn babies compared to pregnant women without the disease, according to a new study. The babies that do survive face double the risk for death during the first year of life.
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PAX3 Gene May Be Linked to Birth Defects in Diabetic Mother
A team of researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified an enzyme that may increase the likelihood of birth defects in children born to mothers with diabetes. The enzyme, known as AMPK, signals cells to stop producing a specific gene, PAX3.
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Privately Insured Americans: Diabetes Rise
Approximately 8.8 percent of insured Americans had diabetes or had a doctor tell them they were at risk for the disease in 2012 according to a new report by HCCI, the Health Care Cost Institute. This rate is up from 8.3 percent the previous year.
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Mom's Blood Sugar Influences Child's Weight
An expectant mother's blood sugar levels affect how heavy her baby will be, according to a new study.
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Diabetes Screening During Pregnancy
This is a clinical summary of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for screening for diabetes in pregnancy.
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Preconception Screening May Predict Gestational Diabetes
Metabolic testing can detect issues with high blood sugar, high insulin levels and low HDL cholesterol ' all risk factors for gestational diabetes.
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Causes of PCOS
What causes PCOS?
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Study: How Weight Affects First Pregnancy Outcomes
Increased weight is associated with increased incidence of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, macrosomia, induction of labor and cesarean delivery.
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Diabetes and Birth Weight Affects Coronary Artery Disease
Scientists have long been debating the link between birth weight and coronary artery disease. Some studies have linked the two events clearly while others negate the original link altogether.
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High-Risk Pregnancy - Maternal
Maternal causes of a high-risk pregnancy
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Depression + Metabolic Syndrome = Elevated Risk for Diabetes
A recent study from Canada finds an elevated risk for diabetes when a person has both depression and metabolic syndrome; the diabetes risk is higher when the two disorders are combined than when only one or the other disorder is present. ... read more »
Diabetes Mellitus and Birth Defects
Women who receive a diagnosis of diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with one or even multiple birth defects than a mother who is not diabetic.
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How to Find Out if You Are a High Risk Pregnancy in 12 Steps
Finding out if you have a high risk pregnancy is important. Having a high risk pregnancy means you have an increased risk of complications during pregnancy.
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Periconception Health Affects Child's Disease Risk
A mother's health and diet just before and after conception could have an impact on a child's health in the long run, researchers say.
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What Are The Side Effects Of Metformin?
What are the side effects of Metformin? Usually the side effects of Metformin depend on how much of the medicine you take, and they tend to lessen over time.
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Metformin Dosage: How Much Should I Take?
How much Metformin is necessary to treat polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) during pregnancy? How much should I take to treat diabetes? What should my dosage be?
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