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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
THERE HAVE been calls for standardised diabetes screening for expectant mothers after a new study has shown that in pregnancy the disease is going undiagnosed and untreated.
Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) ? the most common medical problem among pregnant women ? run a seven times higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes after their pregnancy. The condition is also associated with premature births, Caesarean deliveries, large babies, and a three times higher likelihood of neo-natal ICU admission.
The latest findings from the unique Atlantic-DIP (Diabetes in Pregnancy) study, carried out by the school of medicine at NUI Galway, shows a significant increase in recorded diagnoses of GDM between 2005 and 2010, but because only a selective group of high-risk women was screened, many cases are going undiagnosed and untreated.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/0529/1224316853762.html
Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) ? the most common medical problem among pregnant women ? run a seven times higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes after their pregnancy. The condition is also associated with premature births, Caesarean deliveries, large babies, and a three times higher likelihood of neo-natal ICU admission.
The latest findings from the unique Atlantic-DIP (Diabetes in Pregnancy) study, carried out by the school of medicine at NUI Galway, shows a significant increase in recorded diagnoses of GDM between 2005 and 2010, but because only a selective group of high-risk women was screened, many cases are going undiagnosed and untreated.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/0529/1224316853762.html