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WHAT IS GDM?

When a healthy women is identified with a spike in blood glucose level, it is due to insufficient as well as ineffective produced insulin to compete the placental hormones. Even though GDM is usually diagnosed among pregnant women during 24-28weeks, the early incidence of GDM in initial trimester is in a rising trajectory. It is also observed that the women who were diagnosed with GDM between 24-28 weeks in their first pregnancy are showing rise in blood glucose level in subsequent pregnancy as early as even in first month, if they didn’t incorporate healthy life style as a part of their life. Beyond the complications to maternal and infant health during pregnancy, its effects persist later on, even to the point where GDM mothers develop Type II diabetes within the first two to seven years of their lives.