Gestational Diabetes

Submitted by devarshee on Sat, 12/02/2011 - 23:11
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Gestational Diabetes is the high blood sugar that starts or first diagnosed during pregnancy.Pregnacy hormones can block the insulin and thus glucose homoestasis is disturbed. When this happens glucose levels may increase in a pregnant woman's blood.


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imageIn order to keep the carbohydrate metabolism normal during pregnancy, the body has to make three times more insulin than normal.
imageMacrosomia is seen to occur in upto 40% of GDM offsprings.

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