Interventions Targeting Gestational Diabetes can Improve Maternal and Infant Health

Interventions targeting on gestational diabetes can improve maternal and infant health. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified four target areas in which increased surveillance, screening, and preventive care can enhance maternal and infant health.

Interventions targeting on gestational diabetes can improve maternal, and infant health, reports a new study.

Diabetes in pregnant women can have serious health consequences for both mother and baby, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified four target areas in which increased surveillance, screening, and preventive care can improve maternal and infant health.

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The condition is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by the action of hormones produced during pregnancy that blocks the action of insulin.

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CDC interventions targeting on gestational diabetes can improve maternal and infant health. The intervention includes enhanced surveillance of pregnant women for diabetes, preconception care for women with pre-existing diabetes, postpartum screening for women with gestational diabetes, and programs designed to prevent the progression of gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes post-pregnancy.

CDC researchers provide an up-to-date review of the science related to diabetes during pregnancy and describe the activities they have implemented at different stages of pregnancy, from preconception to postpartum care, in an article published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

Co-authors Shin Kim, MPH, Nicholas Deputy, Ph.D, MPH, and Cheryl Robbins, Ph.D, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA discuss the risks associated with pre-existing and gestational diabetes and highlight four main preventive activities in the article entitled "Diabetes During Pregnancy: Surveillance, Preconception Care, and Postpartum Care." These include improved surveillance of pregnant women for diabetes, preconception care for women with pre-existing diabetes, postpartum screening for women with gestational diabetes, and programs designed to prevent the progression of gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes post-pregnancy.

"A greater awareness of the risks of diabetes during and after pregnancy and more widespread efforts to identify pregnant women with pre-existing or gestational diabetes may help mitigate some of the risks, particularly through improved glucose control and the opportunity to introduce screening and lifestyle interventions as part of postpartum care," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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