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- The Starfish Story, Diabetes, and the Poorest Nation in the World
Even drops in the bucket make a difference
- Flying on Insulin
It has been 22 years since Air Canada pilot Steve Steele was grounded with type 1
- Following Dr. Bernstein on Holiday
A traveling couple tries to stick to low carbs
- Sleep Apnea and Diabetes
Here’s something to make you sit up and take notice (maybe 100 times a night): 23 percent of type 2s have obstructive sleep apnea.
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Pregnancy and Diabetes
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2 comments - Jun 6, 2008 -
Study Shows More Women Getting Pregnant With Diabetes
Poorly managed diabetes during pregnancy can cause a variety of negative scenarios, including birth defects, stillbirths and miscarriages. Now experts are gravely concerned that the number of women who start their pregnancies with diabetes has doubled in recent years.
3 comments - Apr 26, 2008 -
A study at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark says there is a link between type 1 or pregnancy-related diabetes in mothers and the later onset of type 2 diabetes in their children.
1 comment - Feb 26, 2008 -
When a woman is pregnant, she needs to produce more insulin than usual because her body is feeding more cells than normal. A hormone, prolactin, which is abundant during pregnancy, causes more pancreatic islet cells to grow in order to produce the extra insulin.
0 comments - Dec 30, 2007 -
The higher your blood glucose is during pregnancy, the greater your child's chances of growing up to be obese, according to a recent study published in Diabetes Care.
0 comments - Oct 15, 2007 -
Eating For Two: A Personal Story of Pregnancy and Diabetes
When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year, my doctors and I were rather shocked. I was only 27 years old at the time, slender and in good shape. Diabetes does run in my mother's side of the family, so I wasn't completely taken aback.
0 comments - Sep 28, 2007 -
Prevent Birth Defects: Don't Get Pregnant Until Your Sugar Is Controlled
Two-thirds of pregnancies in women with diabetes are unplanned. How long after conception do those women realize they're pregnant? They may be eight weeks into their pregnancy before they know it's happened.
3 comments - Jul 14, 2007 -
How elevated does your blood sugar have to be before you're diagnosed with gestational diabetes? Not near as elevated as we used to think, according to the findings of the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study.
0 comments - Jul 10, 2007 -
Gestational diabetes affects about 5% of all women in late pregnancy. About a third of those women will go on to develop type 2 diabetes within five years, says a recent study in the Post-Graduate Medical Journal, and it'll most likely be the women who had the highest A1c's during their gestational diabetes.
0 comments - Jun 27, 2007 -
High Sugar Levels Can Cause Birth Defects: Joslin Study Tells How
Women with diabetes are up to five times more likely than the general population to have a baby with birth defects, especially of the heart and spinal cord, organs that form within the first few weeks of pregnancy.
0 comments - Apr 16, 2007 -