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Health & Medicine - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 12:42 - 1 Comment
Sharp spike in diabetes during pregnancy
For the past decade, the rate of gestational diabetes as previously measured has soared as much as 50 percent. “We shouldn’t be surprised,” Boyd Metzger says. “The fact that we have a lot of gestational diabetes to deal with is consistent with the major impact that diabetes and obesity are having in our population at large. How could we expect pregnancy to escape that?”
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Two to three times more pregnant women may soon be diagnosed and treated for gestational diabetes due to new guidelines for assessing risky blood sugar levels. Continue…
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