Health News from Medical News Today: Pregnancy Diabetes Risk Can Be Predicted Up To Seven Years Before

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Pregnancy Diabetes Risk Can Be Predicted Up To Seven Years Before 30 May 2011, 8:00 am The risk of developing diabetes in pregnancy can be predicted up to seven years before by carefully monitoring known risk factors associated with diabetes and heart risk said researchers in California whose findings are published online today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Research shows that developing diabetes in pregnancy, a type known as gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), makes a woman more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes afterwards. GDM is characterized by glucose intolerance that typically starts around the second or third trimester... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.