Complications in Pregnancy Leading to Gestational Diabetes

In October 2015, PLOS ONE, the online journal, reported abnormal blood fats and low HDL or "good" cholesterol, are linked with Gestational or pregnancy-related diabetes. Preeclampsia, a dangerous condition that includes high blood pressure during pregnancy has also been related to abnormal fats and cholesterol.

Scientists at Soroka University Medical Center and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, compared blood fat and cholesterol in 27,721 pregnancies. Over 3,000 developed diabetes or preeclampsia during their pregnancy...

• pregnant mothers with high blood fats were 61 percent more likely to develop either Gestational diabetes or preeclampsia than pregnant women with normal blood fats.
• pregnant mothers with low HDL had a 33 percent higher risk.
• women with both high blood fats and low HDL had more than twice the risk of developing diabetes during their pregnancy, and/or preeclampsia.

From these results, it was recommend looking at blood fats and cholesterol for women of childbearing age.

Complications Associated with Assisted Reproductive Technology. Assisted reproductive technology has helped many people to have children, but it's been suggested this technology should be approached with caution.

According to the results of a study published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility in October 2015, assisted reproductive technology can make for high-risk pregnancies. Scientists at Central South University in Hunan, China, combined studies on the subject and analysed them as if they were one large study.

Pregnancies from assisted technology were at high risk for...

• Gestational diabetes,
• high blood pressure diagnosed during pregnancy,
• placenta implanted in the wrong section of the uterus,
• bleeding before delivery,
• unusual bleeding after delivery,
• too much or too little water in the baby's sac,
• premature birth,
• low birthweight,
• the death of the baby, or
• birth defects.

Mothers using assisted reproductive technology should be observed carefully for signs or symptoms of any complications. Mothers changing their Obstetrician should be sure to mention utilization of the method.

Do Parasite Infections Affect Blood Sugar Levels in Pregnant Women? In September 2015, the medical journal Folia Parasitologica published an article linking the parasite Toxoplasmosis gondii with Gestational diabetes. Investigators at Prague University in the Czech Republic compared blood sugar levels in pregnant women with and without the infection...

• women with toxoplasmosis had higher blood sugar levels than uninfected women.
• among infected women, 29.5 percent had developed diabetes during their pregnancy.

To put it another way, infected women had a 78 percent higher risk of developing Gestational diabetes than uninfected women.

Toxoplasmosis is one of the world's most common parasitic infections. People with healthy immune systems usually have no signs or symptoms. It can be treated, so pregnant women should consider being testing for the parasite.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

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