Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is a disorder that causes elevated blood sugar levels during pregnancy. It affects up to 10% of pregnant women in the world each year. It affects women who are pregnant but have never been diagnosed with diabetes. Gestational diabetes is divided into two categories. Diet and exercise can help women with class A1 manage their condition. Those with A2 diabetes must use insulin or other drugs. In contrast to type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes usually develops too late in pregnancy to cause birth defects. Birth defects are more common in the first trimester of pregnancy (before the 13th week). GDM problems are typically controllable and avoidable. The key to prevention is to keep blood sugar levels under strict control as soon as diabetes is diagnosed.

• Macrosomia
• Hypoglycemia
• Types of gestational diabetes
• GD and Birth defects
• Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of GD