Science Daily reports on a study persuasively showing that progesterone injections don’t reduce recurrent preterm birth rates. What’s more, they increase the likelihood of developing gestational diabetes. The study compared rates of preterm birth after 20 weeks and...
Gestational Diabetes Drug Increases Adverse Newborn Outcomes
Reprint of March 31, 2015 CBU blog post WebMD reports on a study finding that glyburide, a treatment endorsed by ACOG, but not approved by the FDA for treating GDM, is associated with serious adverse newborn outcomes. Using an insurance claims database, investigators...
Gestational Diabetes: Does a New Study Tell Us What Investigators Think It Does?
Floating around the internet is news about a large French study of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and the risks it poses. It’s a brilliant analysis because it separates gestational diabetes from Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and reports outcomes according to...
Do Very High BMI and Gestational Diabetes Increase the Likelihood of Having a Child with Autism?
Henci has a Science & Sensibility post under this title deconstructing a flurry of studies coming to the conclusion that they might.
Another Maternal Benefit of Breastfeeding
Adding to the long list of breastfeeding benefits, Medscape Medical News summarizes a study demonstrating that breastfeeding strongly protects women diagnosed with gestational diabetes from progressing to Type 2 diabetes. Turning to the study itself, investigators...
Part 2: Suspected Big Baby? Ignorance Is Bliss
Close on the heels of the previous study comes a Medscape report on a study of the effects of a large-for-gestational-age (LGA) diagnosis, meaning the baby's estimated weight is in the upper 10% for that week of pregnancy, in women with gestational diabetes (GD) ....