50% of pregnant women with gestational diabetes are at risk of serious health problems

A new local study conducted by Dr. Mohammed Bashir, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology at the HMC and head of the diabetes clinic at the Center for Women's Health and Research, stressed the need to help the Adult women understand the importance of a healthy lifestyle to prevent and reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. He noted that the incidence of gestational diabetes increased the complications associated with it and could lead to serious and long-term health problems for pregnant women and fetuses.

The researcher, who supervised the study, said that 50% of pregnant women with gestational diabetes were exposed to type 2 diabetes less than 5 years after gestational diabetes.

"Some women during pregnancy have a high blood sugar level, called gestational diabetes, and symptoms usually appear between week 24 and week 28 and, as in the various forms of diabetes, the disease causes an imbalance in the Use of sugar cells in the body, but blood glucose in gestational diabetes returns to normal normally shortly after birth and when pregnant women are diagnosed with diabetes, pregnancy is more likely to be infected during pregnancy and become vulnerable to diabetes.From the second category to a later stage of life Taha.

"Gestational diabetes involves complications that have a negative effect on the fetus, such as premature birth and excessive weight of the fetus at the time of delivery." Half of pregnant women with gestational diabetes are affected type 2 diabetes in the next 5 years,.

Although most women with gestational diabetes have healthy babies, the condition needs to be treated with great caution as it causes serious long-term health problems for the pregnant woman and the fetus, noting that the baby is not healthy. One in five babies is born For mothers with gestational diabetes, they are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes at the age of 20 and reach one in three children at the age of 30 years.

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