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Gestational diabetes

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Gestational diabetes is "diabetes mellitus induced by pregnancy but resolved at the end of pregnancy. It does not include previously diagnosed diabetics who become pregnant (pregnancy in diabetics). Gestational diabetes usually develops in late pregnancy when insulin antagonistic hormones peaks leading to insulin resistance; glucose intolerance; and hyperglycemia."[1]

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  1. ↑ Anonymous, (2008) Diabetes, Gestational (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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