The findings suggest that breastfeeding may offer mothers with previous gestational diabetes an additional metabolic benefit ...

Post-Pregnancy Health Problems: Most women's attention is focused on the baby. Things like fatigue, hair loss, weight gain, mood swings, or persistent weakness are often overlooked. Symptoms of ...

Food insecurity, defined as the lack of consistent access to sufficient food for an active, healthy life, has been exacerbated in Tribal communities by systemic anti-indigenous racism, including ...

In 2010, University of Oklahoma researcher David Fields, Ph.D., was poring over research data when he discovered something he thought was odd: his data showed that at 6 months of age, formula-fed ...

A study demonstrates a connection between off-target pesticides and gestational diabetes in at-risk communities.

Gestational diabetes affects 200,000 pregnant women in the United States each year. New research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the more severe the case, the higher the ...

In some cases, a doctor may prescribe insulin to help manage gestational diabetes. However, other management methods and medications are available. Gestational diabetes (GD) is when a person ...

High blood sugar during pregnancy, also known as gestational diabetes, can cause a baby to be born early. It can also cause excess weight gain, low blood sugar after birth, and breathing difficulties.

Smoking has been associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, and it treated as a causal risk factor for type 2 diabetes in non-pregnant adults. While ACOG and the ADA recommend screening ...