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care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 66. I'm your co-host

Dr. Cain. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today I'm delighted to offer

a little bit of an update in diabetes. We're going to call this session, what's new in diabetes

world, tap as style. And what it means is we're going to talk a little bit about diabetes, bits and

pieces of new information. Before we jump into it, I just wanted to thank our listeners for letting us know that the audio quality wasn't coming through as clear as it could, and I hope that we fixed the problem with the last episode and this episode as well.

So, Dr. Patel, why don't we go ahead and jump into what's new on the 2017 ADA Standards of Care Guidelines?

And as I understand it, these are released every single year.

Is that correct? That is correct. It's a very active group of people who publish their updates

every January. So this is a little bit late in our time of updating our folks here. But the newest

standards are as of 2017 of January. and one of the things that they focused on

is care for gestational diabetes. So macrosomia, which is larger birth rate of a child

defined as greater than nine pounds is no longer an independent risk factor of having diabetes later in life.

So this was considered one of the risk factors before,

but the new studies show that this doesn't have any correlation anymore.

So they're removing this as a risk factor.

The other update in gestational diabetes was that instead of doing the post-perdom assessment of blood glucose to

check for development of diabetes at 6 to 12 weeks, they're doing it a little bit earlier.

And this is just kind of cosmetic type of a change just because they think the obstetric

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