Pregnancy is a good ground to pay more attention to your health condition, because it has a direct influence on your baby’s health and on your own health in future after child birth.

The prevalence of gestational diabetes varies from country to country. Approximately its frequency is between 5 and 10 percent or between 1 and 14 percent of all pregnancy cases. In the United States about 4 percent of pregnant women have gestational diabetes. Approximately five to ten percent of women that had gestational diabetes also had diabetes following child birth.

There are a number of risk factors that can lead to developing of this disease. Such as overweight/obesity, diabetes mellitus that your near relations have, age over 35, gestational diabetes during your previous pregnancy, etc. In addition to this smoking mothers have higher chances to get it than those who have a healthy life-style.

Gestational diabetes is not a reason to refuse from getting pregnant. Of course it’s a danger, but its possibility is rather low. Gestational diabetes belongs to treatable diseases. From the first day of its detection it’s necessary to control glucose level. Normal blood sugar level will help keep you form putting weight on, from complications in child birth, and further progress to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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