A Historical Perspective on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus- A Review

  Keerthana Raja,  Vijayalakshmi. M,  Haritha Mohan,  L.Sri Priya

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a form of diabetes affecting the pregnant women who develops the diabetes for the first-time during pregnancy. Diabetes increases pregnancy risks difficulty in conceiving, miscarriages, malformed babies and an overall poor outcome in pregnancies and are the major impacts of diabetes in women. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) one in ten women are living with diabetes, many of whom do not have access to health care and lack awareness about the diseases. Diabetes in women is one of the lesser discussed topics. This therefore becomes a high priority to control the disease at its earlier stages. What needs to be done is that all the women with diabetes should have access to the essential diabetes medicine, technologies and screening facilities.

Keywords- Gestational diabetes mellitus, glucose tolerance, insulin and pregnancy.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1904011
Page Number(s) - 46-52
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 4 | October 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Keerthana Raja,  Vijayalakshmi. M,  Haritha Mohan,  L.Sri Priya,   "A Historical Perspective on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus- A Review", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 4, pp.46-52, October 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1904011.pdf