EBB 59 - Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the evidence on diagnosing gestational diabetes, and the use of the Glucola test. Evidence Based Birth just released a new Signature Article on this topic, and it is a subject that people are always wanting to know more about.
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy. In a normal pregnancy, your hormones can make it harder for your body to use insulin. That means you might need up to three times more insulin to overcome the increased resistance, but your body's insulin response is sufficient to cover this. However, with gestational diabetes there is either too much insulin resistance, or too little insulin response, or a combination of both. Glucose builds up in the blood until it reaches abnormally high levels, called hyperglycemia. It's those high blood sugar levels that can cause problems for mothers and babies.
Listen as we cover all the latest research, and clarify the terms "screening" and "diagnosis". We also discuss the oral glucose tolerance test for diagnosing gestational diabetes, and the 50-gram Glucola - an oral glucose drink used for screening.
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Find the EBB Signature Article, The Evidence on Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on |
| 0:04.3 | diagnosing gestational diabetes and using the glucole test. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:25.6 | into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:29.5 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:33.0 | See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi everyone, I'm super excited to welcome you to this episode of the Evidence-Based Birth podcast. |
| 0:45.7 | Gestational diabetes is a fascinating topic and it was one of the first things that people |
| 0:51.9 | asked me to write about when I started |
| 0:54.6 | evidence-based birth nearly seven years ago in the year 2012. |
| 0:59.7 | We just |
| 1:05.0 | released a new signature article about the evidence on diagnosing gestational diabetes and using the glucoa test. |
| 1:08.0 | You can find that at evidence-based birth.com |
| 1:12.0 | slash diagnosing G. |
| 1:15.4 | So like I said, I originally published an article |
| 1:18.1 | on this topic in 2012, and this year |
| 1:21.1 | my research assistant and I, Anna Bertoni, MPH, worked really hard. |
| 1:25.8 | We spent a long time this year working on this article because this is a very technical topic |
| 1:31.0 | and the research is very difficult to decipher. |
| 1:34.0 | So I'm going to start off by defining and describing |
| 1:37.0 | gestational diabetes, and then I'll kind of summarize briefly |
| 1:40.0 | what we found about the research evidence on screening and diagnosing |
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