Not exact matches
Dr. Douglas Fenton: Well, Gestational Diabetes reflects
glucose intolerance that occurs for the first time or at least diagnosed the first time
during pregnancy.
The researchers also found these mice suffered from
glucose intolerance and insulin insensitivity — signs of an increased risk of developing diabetes
during adulthood.
I found that rates of gestational diabetes (a type of
glucose intolerance that occurs
during pregnancy that often resolves itself once the baby arrives) had risen dramatically in recent decades.
Gestational diabetes is characterized by
glucose intolerance which usually takes place
during the 2nd or 3rd trimester and results in complications in as many as 7 % of pregnancies in the US.
In women, it is defined as any degree of
glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition
during pregnancy (1).
Nevertheless, progesterone elevation does cause
glucose intolerance and overt diabetes
during diestrus in bitches (126,127).
GDM is characterised by
glucose intolerance diagnosed
during pregnancy not fulfilling the criteria for diabetes.1 2 It often resolves after childbirth, 1 2 although up to 40 % of women have prediabetes in the early postpartum period.3 In Switzerland, the prevalence of GDM is 10.8 %.4