What is Gestational diabetes?

What is Gestational diabetes?

• Gestational diabetes: Diabetes that occurs in pregnant women, usually resolving after birth.
• Gestational diabetes: glucose intolerance which onsets during pregnancy; does not include diabetics who become pregnant or women who become lactosuric; after pregnancy, the woman is reclassified as diabetic or not depending on whether glucose intolerance persists.
  Source - Diseases Database

Gestational diabetes: Introduction

Types of Gestational diabetes:

Broader types of Gestational diabetes:

• Diabetes
• Pregnancy-related conditions
• Pancreas conditions
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How many people get Gestational diabetes?

Incidence (annual) of Gestational diabetes: 135,000 pregnant women get the condition every year; 3-5% of pregnant women.
Incidence Rate of Gestational diabetes: approx 1 in 2,014 or 0.05% or 135,000 people in USA [about data]

Who gets Gestational diabetes?

Racial Information for Gestational diabetes: Population studies among Hispanic women with diabetes show significantly higher death and complication rates during pregnancy. Mexican-American women have higher rates of gestational diabetes than non-Hispanic white women (especially when they are overweight). Once a woman has had gestational diabetes, she has an increased risk of developing the disease in future pregnancies. Studies have found that about half of women with gestational diabetes - regardless of race - develop type 2 diabetes within 20 years of the pregnancy. (Source: excerpt from Diabetes Mellitus in Hispanic Women: NWHIC)

How serious is Gestational diabetes?

Prognosis of Gestational diabetes: Good. Usually cures after birth. Need to control sugars during pregnancy for baby's health.
Complications of Gestational diabetes: see complications of Gestational diabetes

What causes Gestational diabetes?

Causes of Gestational diabetes: see causes of Gestational diabetes
Cause of Gestational diabetes: Unclear. Probably pregnancy-related weight gain and/or hormonal changes affecting sugar metabolism.
Risk factors for Gestational diabetes: see risk factors for Gestational diabetes

What are the symptoms of Gestational diabetes?

Symptoms of Gestational diabetes: see symptoms of Gestational diabetes

Complications of Gestational diabetes: see complications of Gestational diabetes

Can anyone else get Gestational diabetes?

Inheritance: see inheritance of Gestational diabetes

Gestational diabetes: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Gestational diabetes.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Gestational diabetes.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Gestational diabetes: see treatments for Gestational diabetes
Prevention of Gestational diabetes: see prevention of Gestational diabetes
Research for Gestational diabetes: see research for Gestational diabetes

Society issues for Gestational diabetes

Hospitalization statistics for Gestational diabetes: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Gestational diabetes:

• 0.052% (6,664) of hospital consultant episodes were for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 99% of hospital consultant episodes for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 100% of hospital consultant episodes for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 2% of hospital consultant episodes for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 2.6 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 2 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Gestational diabetes:

Organs and body systems related to Gestational diabetes include:

• Pancreas

Name and Aliases of Gestational diabetes

Main name of condition: Gestational diabetes

Pregnancy Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, GDM

Pregnancy associated diabetes mellitus Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Gestational diabetes:

• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Syndrome X
• Macrosomia
• Lazy colon syndrome
• Hypocalcemia
• Large for date babies
• Insulin
• Diabetic coma
• Hypoglycaemia
• Diabetic ulcer
• Diabetic foot
• Oral thrush

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