Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is diabetes during pregnancy that a women never had it before.The risk factor includes age greater than 25, family or personal health history and excess body weight.
And what exactly cause a women to have GDM? In gestational diabetes, the placenta hormones provoke a rise in blood sugar to a level that can affect the growth and welfare of your baby. During pregnancy, the placenta that connects your growing baby to your blood supply produces high levels of various other hormones. Almost all of them impair the action of insulin in your cells, raising your blood sugar. However, modest elevation of blood sugar after meals is normal during pregnancy. As your baby grows, the placenta produces more and more insulin-bloking hormones. Gestational diabetes usually develops during the last half of pregnancy-sometimes as early as the 20th week, but usually not until later. For most women, blood sugar levels go back to normal quickly after the baby is born.
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