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Glucose intolerance that is first diagnosed during pregnancy is termed gestational diabetes mellitus. The definition is ambiguous, and the treatment controversial. Most important, the threshold at which glucose intolerance adversely affects the course of pregnancy and increases the risk of future diabetes in the mother and her child is not known.

Pregnancy can be viewed as a physiologic beta-cell stress test, with glucose tolerance depending on the presence of adequate maternal beta-cell reserves. In normal pregnancy, fasting plasma glucose concentrations decrease and postprandial glucose concentrations rise. The latter effect continues throughout pregnancy; postprandial insulin release doubles, whereas insulin sensitivity is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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• (1995). IMPROVING PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IN GESTATIONAL DIABETICS. JWatch General 1995: 4-4 [Full Text]