Health
South Asian women get diabetes at higher rates. A study aims to fight those stats with exercise
Like many moms, Asmita Patel has struggled to find time to exercise in recent years.
Oct 26, 2022
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News tagged with gestational diabetes
Obstetrics & gynaecology
High exposure to glyphosate in pregnancy could cause lower birth weights in babies
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are learning more about the effects of herbicide exposure during pregnancy, finding glyphosate in 99% of the pregnant women they observed in the Midwest. In the study, published ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Kidney health in adult life begins before birth, says study
Maternal health may play an important role in helping prevent kidney disease, according to a Monash University study that found the risk of developing the disease in adult life is partially determined at birth.
Oct 13, 2022
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Diabetes
Women with diabetes at an early age likely to enter menopause early
Persons living with diabetes are at greater risk of a number of health conditions including eye and foot problems, heart attacks and strokes, and kidney and nerve damage. A new study suggests that the earlier a woman becomes ...
Oct 12, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study advances search for biological markers that predict risk of postpartum depression
A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers discovered that communication among cells is altered in pregnant women who go on to develop postpartum depression (PPD) after giving birth.
Oct 4, 2022
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Cardiology
Severe preeclampsia treated safely with nifedipine during labor and delivery
Women with severe preeclampsia (severe high blood pressure) during pregnancy may be treated with extended-release nifedipine, a blood pressure-lowering medicine, daily during the labor and delivery process, according to new ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Diabetes
Early control of blood sugar key for gestational diabetes
Pregnant patients treated for gestational diabetes had better birth outcomes if they rapidly improved their blood sugar levels soon after diagnosis rather than having slow or no improvement, according to new research from ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Diabetes
Healthy lifestyle linked to 90% lower risk of diabetes in susceptible women
Women with a history of diabetes in pregnancy can still reduce their chances of developing type 2 diabetes by adopting a healthy lifestyle, such as eating healthy, stopping smoking, exercising regularly, and not being overweight, ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Cardiology
Diabetes in pregnancy linked to heightened risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Women with a history of diabetes in pregnancy (gestational diabetes) are at substantially higher risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases—conditions that affect blood flow in the heart and brain—finds an analysis ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Diabetes
Diabetes and oral diseases affect each other and hinder treatment
Research shows that common chronic diseases and problems associated with oral health have a detrimental and long-term reciprocal effect on each other. To achieve the best possible treatment outcomes, the general and oral ...
Sep 21, 2022
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