Gestational Diabetes

Fetus size helps determine gestational diabetes treatment, study shows

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 23rd, 2004

Measuring the size of an unborn baby's mid-section provides a better indication than maternal blood glucose testing of whether the mother should receive treatment for gestational diabetes, according to a study published in the February issue of Diabetes Care.

If this method were widely accepted, it could reduce the number of women who require treatment for this disease, which is a form of diabetes that appears during pregnancy and can lead to large birth weight babies.

Babies who are born overweight are often more difficult to deliver and are at increased risk for other health problems at birth, as are their mothers.

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