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	Gestational Diabetes Resource Guide - American Diabetes Association
		Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect, you'll learn what gestational diabetes is and how to care for yourself during your pregnancy.
		Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby's body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing.
		While gestational diabetes is a cause for concern, the good news is that you and your health care team - your doctor, obstetrician, nurse educator, and dietitian - work together to lower your high blood glucose levels.
	www.diabetes.org /gestational-diabetes.jsp (1053 words)

	Gestational Diabetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Diabetes is a condition where sufficient amounts of insulin are either not produced or the body is unable to use the insulin that is produced.
		Gestational diabetes is a condition in which the glucose level is elevated and other diabetic symptoms appear during pregnancy in a woman who has not previously been diagnosed with diabetes.
		Unlike other types of diabetes, gestational diabetes is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by blocking effects of other hormones on the insulin that is produced, a condition referred to as insulin resistance.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /uvahealth/peds_hrpregnant/gesdia.cfm (1016 words)

	Gestational Diabetes
		Gestational diabetes usually develops about midway through a pregnancy, at about 20 to 24 weeks, and is caused by the changes in hormones in your body during pregnancy.
		Gestational diabetes usually clears up as soon as the baby is born, since when the placenta is removed, the hormones it was producing - which were causing the insulin resistance -- are also removed.
		Gestational diabetes mellitus affects approximately 7% of all pregnant women, resulting in more than 200,000 cases each year, and is defined as glucose intolerance that begins or is first recognized during pregnancy.
	www.tabebak.com /gestational_diabetes.htm (7496 words)

	Gestational Diabetes
		Gestational diabetes (also called glucose intolerance of pregnancy) is a temporary condition that occurs during pregnancy.
		In most cases, gestational diabetes is managed by diet and exercise and goes away after the baby is born.
		Gestational diabetes is usually diagnosed between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy when insulin resistance usually begins.
	www.mamashealth.com /diabetes3.asp (367 words)

	Gestational Diabetes - Twins
		Gestational Diabetes is a type of Diabetes that only occurs during pregnancy.
		Gestational Diabetes is when the pancreas is unable to produce enough insult to cover both the mother’s and the babies body needs.
		Gestational Diabetes is usually detected in the 24th week of pregnancy.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art33748.asp (502 words)

	Gestational diabetes
		Gestational diabetes is a condition that occurs during pregnancy.
		Gestational diabetes, however, has a number of characteristics that are different from other forms of diabetes.
		Since gestational diabetes most often exists with no symptoms detectable by the patient, and since its existence puts the developing baby at considerable risk, screening for the disorder is a routine part of pregnancy care.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/gestational_diabetes.jsp (1417 words)

	Complications: Pregnancy-Induced Diabetes
		Gestational diabetes is diabetes that develops during pregnancy.
		Gestational diabetes generally goes away after delivery, but women who get it face about a 50 percent chance of having it again in another pregnancy, and a 50 percent risk of developing diabetes later in life.
		While gestational diabetes generally goes away after delivery, women who get it face about a 50 percent risk of developing diabetes later in life and also have a 50 percent chance of gestational diabetes in another pregnancy.
	www.marchofdimes.com /pnhec/188_1025.asp (657 words)

	Gestational Diabetes
		Gestational diabetes is a carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity that starts or is first recognized during pregnancy or the inability of the tissues to absorb glucose from the bloodstream during pregnancy due to a lack of the hormone insulin.
		In gestational diabetes, the pancreas is not at fault.
		Screening for gestational diabetes is usually done between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy.
	www.womenfitness.net /gestational_diabetes.htm (1394 words)

	Gestational Diabetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gestational diabetes is diabetes that is found for the first time when a woman is pregnant.
		Gestational (jes-TAY-shun-ul) diabetes is diabetes that is found for the first time when a woman is pregnant.
		Both you and your baby are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes for the rest of your lives.
	diabetes.niddk.nih.gov /dm/pubs/gestational/index.htm (2252 words)

	Gestational Diabetes: Nutrition and Questions
		However, pregnant diabetic women are one of these high-risk populations, and it is known that babies of hypomagnesemic mothers are at higher risk for certain problems such as hypocalcemia (and other things), although any possible links to malformations and stillbirths has not been firmly established.
		Gestational diabetes providers, while paying lip service to breastfeeding, are notorious for de-emphasizing it, interfering with it through unnecessarily obtrusive procedures, and sabotaging it by being uneducated about breastfeeding and supply issues (placing women on the pill without informing them of its risk to supply, etc.).
		Some gestational diabetics are able to have a bit more flexibility and with guidance from a dietician as to wise choices, are able to have a bit of a treat on rare occasions under certain conditions.
	www.plus-size-pregnancy.org /gd/gd_nutrition.htm (14399 words)

	Diabetes mellitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Type 1 diabetes mellitus - formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM), childhood diabetes, or juvenile-onset diabetes - is characterized by loss of the insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas leading to a deficiency of insulin.
		Diabetes is often detected when a person suffers a problem frequently caused by diabetes, such as a heart attack, stroke, neuropathy, poor wound healing or a foot ulcer, certain eye problems, certain fungal infections, or delivering a baby with macrosomia or hypoglycemia.
		Diabetic foot, often due to a combination of neuropathy and arterial disease, may cause skin ulcer and infection and, in serious cases, necrosis and gangrene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diabetes (5669 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Gestational diabetes
		It is recommended that all pregnant women be screened for gestational diabetes during the 24th and 28th weeks of their pregnancy.
		The risk factors for gestational diabetes are being older when pregnant, African or Hispanic ancestry, obesity, gestational diabetes in a previous pregnancy, having a previous baby weighing over 9 pounds, an unexplained death in a previous fetus or newborn, a congenital malformation (birth defect) in a previous child, and recurrent infections.
		There is a slight increased risk of the fetus or newborn dying when the mother has gestational diabetes, but this risk is lowered with effective treatment and careful watching of the mother and fetus.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000896.htm (751 words)

	Gestational Diabetes -- Topic Overview
		Gestational diabetes is a temporary type of diabetes that develops when a pregnant woman is not able to make enough of a hormone called insulin.
		Gestational diabetes generally goes away after the baby is born.
		However, women who have gestational diabetes are more likely than other women to develop type 2 diabetes, a permanent type of diabetes.
	www.webmd.com /hw/being_pregnant/hw197469.asp (170 words)

	Gestational Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus - dLife.com dLife TV
		Gestational diabetes, or diabetes that occurs in pregnancy and resolves at birth, occurs in approximately three to eight pregnancies of every 100 in America.
		Gestational diabetes mellitus, or GDM, is diabetes that first appears in pregnancy and resolves at birth.
		Gestational diabetes requires treatment with dietary changes and exercise and/or insulin injections to keep maternal blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible and to prevent complications in both mother and baby.
	www.dlife.com /dLife/do/ShowContent/gestational (320 words)

	What is Gestational Diabetes?
		So, if you have had gestational diabetes, you need to see your doctor every year and ask to be screened for type 2 diabetes.
		Gestational diabetes usually doesn't cause birth defects, but one of the problems is the possibility of having a baby that is considerably larger than normal.
		Gestational diabetes happens when the body doesn't make enough insulin and resists the action of insulin because of hormones.
	www.lifeclinic.com /focus/diabetes/gestational_intro.asp (204 words)

	Gestational diabetes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes found in pregnant women.
		Gestational diabetes affects an estimated two to three percent of pregnant women.
		Generally a test for gestational diabetes is carried out between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gestational_diabetes (269 words)

	Gestational Diabetes - Obstetrics and Gynecology - MedStudents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gestational diabetes(GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance of variable degree with onset or first recognition during the present pregnancy.
		Many of the problems associated with overt diabetic pregnancies can be seen in infants of gestational diabetic pregnancies, such as macrosomia, neural tube defects, neonatal hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnsemia, hyperbilirubinemia,birth trauma, prematurity syndromes, and subsequent childhood and adolescent obesity.
		The glucose values used to detect gestational diabetes were first determined by O’Sullivan (1964) in a retrospective study designed to detect risk of developing type II diabetes in the future.
	www.medstudents.com.br /ginob/ginob4.htm (2401 words)

	Diabetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Type 1 diabetes tends to show up after a person is exposed to a trigger, such as a virus, which can start an attack on the cells in the pancreas that make insulin.
		Gestational diabetes — Changing hormones and weight gain are part of a healthy pregnancy, but these changes make it hard for your body to keep up with its need for insulin.
		Your diabetes team will tell you what your target blood sugar range is, how often you need to check your blood sugar, and what to do if it is not where it should be.
	www.4woman.gov /faq/diabetes.htm (2118 words)

	Gestational Diabetes: What it Means for Me and My Baby -- familydoctor.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that starts during pregnancy.
		If you have diabetes, your body isn't able to use the sugar (glucose) in your blood as well as it should, so the level of sugar in your blood becomes higher than normal.
		Even if the gestational diabetes goes away after the baby's birth, it makes you have a higher risk for diabetes in your next pregnancy and later in life.
	familydoctor.org /075.xml (921 words)

	Gestational Diabetes - from Ronnie Falcão's Midwife Archives
		To evaluate the effects of treating gestational diabetes, Crowther, with the University of Adelaide in Australia, and her associates studied women with signs of gestational diabetes between 24 and 34 weeks into pregnancy.
		Gestational hypoglycemia confers favorable obstetric outcome - 6/26/05 - Determining the perinatal significance of hypoglycemia during a 100 g glucose tolerance test in pregnant women.
		I believe that some women are "silent diabetics" and we might discover the disease during her pregnancy; but I don't believe we should be tagging normal women who have unusual gtts with the "gestational diabetic" label.
	www.gentlebirth.org /archives/gestdiab.html (11689 words)

	Gestational diabetes - MayoClinic.com
		Like other forms of diabetes, gestational diabetes affects the way your body uses blood sugar (glucose) — your body's main source of fuel.
		If untreated or uncontrolled, gestational diabetes can result in a variety of health problems for you and your baby.
		If you have gestational diabetes, you and your doctor will devise a plan to keep your blood sugar levels within a normal range.
	www.mayoclinic.com /health/gestational-diabetes/DS00316 (213 words)

	Gestational diabetes and pregnancy on MedicineNet.com
		Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by high blood glucose (sugar) levels that is first recognized during pregnancy.
		During pregnancy, increased levels of certain hormones made in the placenta (the organ that connects the baby by the umbilical cord to the uterus) help shift nutrients from the mother to the developing fetus.
		Diabetes - Information on Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) including types, causes, symptoms of diabetes, medications, and treatment.
	www.medicinenet.com /gestational_diabetes/article.htm (431 words)

	Gestational diabetes
		And finally, having gestational diabetes makes you about twice as likely to develop preeclampsia as other pregnant women.
		However, if you're at high risk for diabetes or are showing signs of it (such as having sugar in your urine), your caregiver will recommend this screening test at your first prenatal visit and then again at 24 to 28 weeks if the result is negative.
		• Your diabetes was diagnosed early in your pregnancy.
	www.babycenter.com /refcap/2058.html (2668 words)

	Gestational diabetes
		Gestational diabetes is a carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity that starts or is first recognized during pregnancy.
		Gestational diabetes is usually diagnosed during the 24th to 28th weeks of pregnancy.
		In many cases, the blood glucose level returns to normal after delivery.
	www.umm.edu /ency/article/000896.htm (365 words)

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