How can I know if in a paper they are talking about gestational diabetes (the condition what starts during pregnancy) or gestational diabetes mellitus (women who had diabetes mellitus before being pregnant?
I have seen that in some papers they talk about gestational diabetes mellitus as the condition that appears during pregnancy and sometimes about women who had DM before being pregnant. Or the two conditions are equal?
Thank you for your help
Gestational diabetes mellitus is a condition onsetting in pregnancy. Maybe that some women are not aware to have diabetes before pregnancy and receive a diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus because screen it in pregnancy. This quote of women has usually a more severe disease, but they represent the minority of cases in a clinical series, not affecting the results. However, the best one articles check for this kind of problem and are able to exclude this cases of mis-diagnoses of gestational diabetes mellitus. Don't worry.
No, the two conditions are not the same. Typically gestational diabetes resolves after the child birth, But in some cases, where the propensity to have diabetes already existed and the lady was never clinically diagnosed as a diabetic (not for the lack of testing but in reality), during the pregnancy the person may have gestational diabetes and not revert to normal glucose levels.
In their publications, most responsible authors do make a note of distinction when data are available.
gestational diabetes refer to the case when the women be diabetic during pregnancy for the first time, but if she had diabetes before, this means she will have diabetes already during pregnancy and called metaphorically gestational diabetes mellitus.
well gestational diabetes as the name imples is a patient who manifests diabetes during her pregnancy under the influence off diabetogenic hormones of pregnancy in patients who are having latent diabetes or have family history and usually is a milder form odf disease usually recerting with metformin and disappears following delivery while patient who is diabetic beforehand generally has a worsening and increased requirement of antidiabetic treatment and may require insulin in uncontrolled obese diabetics .and the more the better control lesser tha chance of large for date babies,congenital malformations associated with it and hence critical control very important during organogenesis.
The best place to look, to answer your question, is in the methods section of the paper, where they describe the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the population under study and they explain the definitions they were using. If a peer-reviewed article calls a condition gestational diabetes mellitus, it is referring to a condition that occurred during pregnancy. If authors mean to discuss women who had diabetes mellitus prior to the pregnancy, it is usually referred to as either Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus or preexisting Type 2.
mrs Alejandra Loyola Leyva may I read you paper on this topic for reference. Thanks for your kindness
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