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- People diagnosed with gestational diabetes, where blood sugar levels become elevated during pregnancy, are at a higher risk of developing diabetes if their blood sugar levels remain high after childbirth.
- Specialized medical societies recommend testing for blood sugar levels between 6 to 12 weeks postpartum.
- However, only 28.7% of women undergo the recommended testing during this period.
- Early detection of blood sugar abnormalities through these tests can potentially prevent the onset of diabetes.
What is Gestational Diabetes? Tap Here!
Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by impaired glucose metabolism first discovered during pregnancy but not severe enough to be classified as diabetes.
When gestational diabetes occurs, the baby in the womb also becomes hyperglycemic, potentially leading to various complications.
- For mothers: Gestational hypertension syndrome, abnormal amniotic fluid levels, shoulder dystocia, retinopathy, nephropathy, and their aggravation.
- For babies: Miscarriage, morphological abnormalities, macrosomia, cardiac hypertrophy, hypoglycemia, polycythemia, electrolyte abnormalities, jaundice, and fetal death.
What are the Criteria Differences between Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes? Tap Here!
The criteria for gestational diabetes are:
Fasting blood glucose ≥ 92 mg/dL, 1-hour postprandial ≥ 180 mg/dL, or 2-hour postprandial ≥ 153 mg/dL.
The criteria for regular diabetes are:
Fasting blood glucose ≥ 126 mg/dL, 2-hour postprandial ≥ 200 mg/dL, or hemoglobin A1C result ≥ 6.5%.
Reactions to the Article
User
I didn’t know people could develop diabetes because of pregnancy.
User
Please measure your HbA1c once a year after childbirth.
User
I get retested within three months postpartum, but yeah, it’s busy and easy to forget.
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I’ll be more careful in the future.
User
It seems to me that diabetic specialists often follow up postpartum, but I hear patients don’t always show up. General practitioners often end care around 35 weeks, so I stopped referring patients there.
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I developed type II diabetes from gestational diabetes and hypertension from gestational hypertension syndrome.
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