Gestational Diabetes

(GDM) Diabetes mellitus that develops during pregnancy and usually goes away after pregnancy, but about 60% of those women will eventually develop Type II diabetes. GDM is the appearance of elevation of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) during pregnancy in approximately five percent (5%) of pregnant women during the second trimester. Gestational diabetes develops in pregnant women previously not known to have diabetes. The regimen for therapy for managing GDM is either a prescribed diet or insulin injections determined by her health care team.

A type of diabetes that can occur in pregnant women who have not been known to have diabetes before. Although gestational diabetes usually subsides after pregnancy, many women who’ve had gestational diabetes develop type 2 diabetes later in life.