A type of diabetes that manifests during pregnancy could disappear by giving birth, but it is still a considerable threat to the mother's future health, which is too overlooked.
Approximately half of the women who have gestational diabetes come to develop type 2 diabetes after the birth of their offspring.They may have spent months or until years.
However, new investigations indicate that less than one in five of these women again take an exploratory examination of diabetes within six months after giving birth.That is the first of the exams that must be taken periodically to prevent the return of diabetes.
The investigation, of the Quest Diagnostics laboratory, says that, if knowing it, many of those mothers could take measures to reduce the possibility of the reappearance of diabetes that can be accompanied by complications such as heart disease and renal injuries.
"It is almost as if one opened a kind of window to the future," compared Dr. Ann Albright, a diabetes specialist at the Centers for the Control and Prevention of United States diseases (CDC)."This is a population that should really be focused for their intervention," he added.
And more future mothers could swell their ranks.The American Diabetes Association recommends a change in the way of examining pregnant women to identify more mild cases than at present, based on some recent studies that found that treating even those mothers facilitates birth.
If the obstetricians adhere, it has the potential to double the diagnoses, although most mild cases only need better nutrition and exercises and non -medications for diabetes, the association warns.
New CDC calculations indicate that almost 26 million Americans suffer from some form of diabetes, mostly type 2 associated with excess weight.Dozens of millions have enough blood sugar to be considered prediabetic.
Women can have type 2 diabetes or type 1, dependent on insulin, at the time they become pregnant.These women are urged to strictly control their diabetes to avoid a series of risks for them and their babies.
However, according to CDC, 2% to 10% of pregnant women develop diabetes for the first time during pregnancy, of the gestational type.If not to be addressed, the high level of blood sugar can cause the fetus to grow too much, demanding caesarean sections or premature births.It can also trigger a potentially deadly ailment called preclampsia, which also increases the risk of the baby becoming an adult obese.
