Gestational diabetes has risen by nearly 50 percent in about 10 years in New York. Not only this, it is also widely recognized that in the lives of many pregnant women, the condition arrives significantly, whose impact can be grave.
It not only identifies those women at particularly high risk to develop permanent diabetes, but it may contribute to their babies’ eventually getting diabetes as well! This disorder is now growing dramatically with the wider expansion of diabetes. And, it is indicated to be growing faster.
“It’s really disturbing to us that women come into their pregnancies obese and then leave them even more obese,” said Barbara Hackley, a certified nurse-midwife at the health center of the Children’s Health Fund and Montefiore Medical Center in the South Bronx. “I’ve seen weight gains during pregnancies of 50 to 60 pounds. We’ve had 11- and 12-pound babies that are very dangerous to deliver.”
Via: New York Times
