Gestational Diabetes
Research on gestational diabetes reported by scientists at Federal University of Minas Gerais
Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 9th, 2006
New research, "Gestational diabetes: a condition of early diastolic abnormalities in young women," is the subject of a report. According to recent research from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, "Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is not merely a temporary condition, but a harbinger of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and atherosclerotic disease. We examined the effect of GDM on cardiac diastolic function."
"Diastolic function was evaluated by serial Doppler echocardiography with pulsed tissue Doppler imaging in 13 patients with GDM and 13 healthy pregnant women (control group) during the third trimester of pregnancy and after 8 weeks postpartum. Diagnostic criteria for...
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