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The development of birth defects associated with maternal hyperglycemia is multi-factorial. Environmental factors and genetic predisposition (paternal, maternal and offspring genome) are important in diabetic embryopathy. The diets of diabetic mothers impacts the rate at which malformations form in their offspring.
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]
In some cases, pregnant women with diabetes may be encouraged to express and store their colostrum during pregnancy, in case their blood sugar is too low for feeding the baby breast milk after birth. [18] There is no evidence on the safety or potential benefits when pregnant women with diabetes express and store breast milk prior to the baby's ...
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Elevated BMI, multiparity (twins, triplets, etc.), and diabetes have been identified as risk factors. [36] Many cases of diastasis recti correct themselves after birth. In cases that persist, exercise may help, but sometimes surgery is needed to improve symptoms and prevent chronic problems. [37] [38]
Black people are more likely than white people to develop diabetes and to die. But millions are not as fortunate. Patti LaBelle: Why I am fighting for greater visibility for diabetic men and women
Since the 1990s, as the understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetes has improved, the concept and usage of MODY have become refined and narrower. It is now used as a synonym for dominantly inherited, monogenic defects of insulin secretion occurring at any age, and no longer includes any forms of type 2 diabetes. [24]
Diabetes is often invisible to everyone but those living with it and, for too long, minorities have gone without better access health care technology. LaBelle: Why I am fighting for greater ...