Gestational diabetes can grow the fetus can lead large. Treatment of mild diabetes develops during pregnancy to prevent serious problems that occur when children too much weight, a new U.S. study suggests, can win.
Women with gestational diabetes - high blood glucose levels temporarily during pregnancy - are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease than the general population.
The disease can also cause the fetus is too large and request a delivery by caesarean section. These children are at greater risk of becoming obese in young and type 2 diabetes as adults.
About four percent of pregnant women in the United States develop gestational diabetes, where some 135,000 cases per year, said Dr. John Thorp, author of the study and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Addressed in a study with 958 women who showed in Thursday's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found appear that women compared with untreated diabetes, for mild gestational diabetes:
· Fewer children who were too large (7.1 percent vs. 14.5 percent). · Fewer caesarean sections (26.9 percent compared to 33.8 percent). • Less shoulder injury during birth (1.5 per cent from 4.0 per cent).
"There is every reason for the treatment of women in full, even with the mildest [GDM] based on our findings," said study leader Dr. Mark Landon of Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus.
The study began with women 24 to 31 weeks of pregnancy. They were randomized, with 485 women, the treatment, including changes in diet, monitoring blood sugar and insulin levels, if necessary, and 473 are not treated.
There were no deaths in each group and no differences in other complications at birth.
Excess weight gain minimizes
Among the treatment group were 93 percent able to keep their blood sugar levels under control by diet alone. The remaining seven percent of insulin needed.
Following a healthy diet may even help other pregnant women to avoid excessive weight gain, "said Dr. David Sacks of the Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Bellflower, California, who wrote a commentary accompanying the journal study.
"Although further research is necessary to appear on the monitoring and minimizing excessive weight gain during pregnancy for all women to a political conservative and cost-effective, with benefits for both the mother and the child can go far beyond the birth," said Sacks .
Working hard to change to his diet "
But is not the change of diet during pregnancy simply said was Lorenda Donaugh who are diagnosed with a mild form of gestational diabetes in 28 weeks.
"I knew it was hard work," the 27 years, said meal planning and reduce the sugar. "It is done time and planning.
Donaugh was not part of the study, but works with Landon by ultrasound. Besides changing his diet, she has his blood sugar, extra monitor on foot, and finally took a drug to treat diabetes. Mother and daughter quantities of health increased.
Risk factors for gestational diabetes are more than 25 years, obese, and whose family history of diabetes.
Women with gestational diabetes - high blood glucose levels temporarily during pregnancy - are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease than the general population.
The disease can also cause the fetus is too large and request a delivery by caesarean section. These children are at greater risk of becoming obese in young and type 2 diabetes as adults.
About four percent of pregnant women in the United States develop gestational diabetes, where some 135,000 cases per year, said Dr. John Thorp, author of the study and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Addressed in a study with 958 women who showed in Thursday's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found appear that women compared with untreated diabetes, for mild gestational diabetes:
· Fewer children who were too large (7.1 percent vs. 14.5 percent). · Fewer caesarean sections (26.9 percent compared to 33.8 percent). • Less shoulder injury during birth (1.5 per cent from 4.0 per cent).
"There is every reason for the treatment of women in full, even with the mildest [GDM] based on our findings," said study leader Dr. Mark Landon of Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus.
The study began with women 24 to 31 weeks of pregnancy. They were randomized, with 485 women, the treatment, including changes in diet, monitoring blood sugar and insulin levels, if necessary, and 473 are not treated.
There were no deaths in each group and no differences in other complications at birth.
Excess weight gain minimizes
Among the treatment group were 93 percent able to keep their blood sugar levels under control by diet alone. The remaining seven percent of insulin needed.
Following a healthy diet may even help other pregnant women to avoid excessive weight gain, "said Dr. David Sacks of the Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Bellflower, California, who wrote a commentary accompanying the journal study.
"Although further research is necessary to appear on the monitoring and minimizing excessive weight gain during pregnancy for all women to a political conservative and cost-effective, with benefits for both the mother and the child can go far beyond the birth," said Sacks .
Working hard to change to his diet "
But is not the change of diet during pregnancy simply said was Lorenda Donaugh who are diagnosed with a mild form of gestational diabetes in 28 weeks.
"I knew it was hard work," the 27 years, said meal planning and reduce the sugar. "It is done time and planning.
Donaugh was not part of the study, but works with Landon by ultrasound. Besides changing his diet, she has his blood sugar, extra monitor on foot, and finally took a drug to treat diabetes. Mother and daughter quantities of health increased.
Risk factors for gestational diabetes are more than 25 years, obese, and whose family history of diabetes.
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