To describe maternal complications and neonatal outcomes caused by gestational diabetes mellitus a descriptive observational study was conducted in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan and Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Kolkata, over a period of one year from July 2009 to June 2010. Women diagnosed by oral glucose tolerance test as gest...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as impaired glucose tolerance that discovered during pregnancy. It associated with both maternal and various fetal neonatal mobidity. Prevalence of gestational ranges from 3.8% to 17.8% in studies done different regions Indian subcontinent. has been observed follow-up mother child more susceptible develop type 2 later life. Some have shown pathogen...

Diabetes is a metabolic condition in which the body does not produce sufficient insulin to regulate blood glucose levels or where the insulin produced is unable to work effectively. There are two main types of diabetes: Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune condition in which the cells that produce insulina are destroyed so lifelong treatment with insulin is required to prevent death. About 10% of ...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy is a period in the life of women that is often associated with decreased daily physical activity and/or exercise. However, maintaining adequate levels of daily physical activity during pregnancy is important for mother and child. Studies suggest that moderate daily physical activity and exercise during pregnancy are associated with reductions in the risk of gestational diab...

Women with previous gestational diabetes (pGDM) are frequently insulin-resistant, which could relate to intramyocellular lipid content (IMCL). IMCL were measured with (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in soleus (IMCL-S) and tibialis-anterior muscles (IMCL-T) of 39 pGDM (32 +/- 2 years, waist-to-hip ratio 0.81 +/- 0.01) and 22 women with normal glucose tolerance (NGT; 31 +/- 1 years, ...

background: fetal growth in diabetic pregnancies is a complex process and probably abnormalities in other metabolic pathways such as protein and lipid, as well as carbohydrate are responsible for delivering of macrosomic newborn. objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between fetal growth and different maternal metabolic parameters in women with gestational diab...

The most spectacular discovery of this century in the therapy of diabetes is insulin. The source of insulin in the past was from animal pancreas which had amino acid sequence different from that of human insulin. This resulted in immunological reactions and inadequate control of plasma glucose due to its pharmacokinetic actions. To overcome the dependence of animal source for the extraction of ...

OBJECTIVE Intensified management of gestational diabetes mellitus can normalize birth weight. However, it is still unknown whether intrauterine exposure to maternal diabetes is a risk factor for changing hormone levels involved in the development of insulin resistance in these infants. We compared insulin and leptin levels in appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants of diabetic and non dia...