Gestational diabetes (or gestational diabetes mellitus, GDM) is a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy.
Gestational diabetes generally has few symptoms and it is most commonly diagnosed by screening during pregnancy. Diagnostic tests detect inappropriately high levels of glucose in blood samples. Gestational diabetes affects 3-10% of pregnancies, depending on the populat...
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Gestational diabetes
Medicine
Risk Factors:
- Overweight
- Old age
- Personal History of Gestational Diabetes
- Family History of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Pacific Islander
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Black
- Hispanic
- Tobacco smoking