Diabetes before pregnancy

According to a research from the state of California, there is a striking rise in the number of young and adult women who have diabetes before becoming mother.The number of such women became almost double between 1999 and 2005 as the figures suggested.

The research has been conducted by Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Research in Pasadena, California.The study has been published online during January this year and it will also be published in the journal Diabetes Care’s May issue.

Gestational diabetes

There is no other available study to examine diabetes before motherhood and this study is considered the first of its kind.However, other studies have been conducted to examine the occurrence of diabetes in pregnancy this sort of diabetes is also known as gestational diabetes and often comes to end after the birth of the baby. But it is considered very harmful to have Type1 or type2 diabetes before pregnancy.

Overweight and obese factor

According to Dr Jean M Lawrence, who is study’s lead author and research scientist at K.P.D.R.E., more and more women have to face diabetes when they reach near to their reproductive years and one factor behind is that our society is getting tend to obesity and overweight with every passing day.

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Everybody is at a risk of developing diabetes. Around 22 millions of American which about one in 14 people have diabetes and more people are at a risk of diabetes. It is not limited to the United States alone. Virtually everywhere, people are exposed to this problem and it is the lifestyle which is mainly responsible for such increasing risk. The disease is much more than a sign to begin a new way of life.

Plenty of good news is coming about diabetes from all corners around the world. Researchers, scientists, and organizations have been making sincere efforts in understanding this disease and devising new cures. Keeping the blood sugar to the normal is significant according to the time and effort shows the research. Thorough controlling of blood sugar level will allow the person to delay or prevent the development of diabetes and its unbearable long term problems.

The schedule of the treatment is to achieve and maintain the near normal or fixed blood sugar level. The controlling of the blood sugar level differs in “Type-1 Diabetes” and “Type-2 Diabetes”. The treatment in ‘type-1 diabetes’ is to replace insulin to counterbalance the body’s inability to produce the insulin required for the body. The treatment of ‘type-2 diabetes’ usually depends on exercise, weight loss and medications to overpower the insulin resistance and to counteract the insulin deficit.

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