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A 33-year-old member asked:
How is gestational diabetes diagnosed?
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Dr. Pavel Conovalciucanswered
Family Medicine 25 years experience
Glucose tolerance: Gestational diabetes is diagnosed with a glucose tolerance test, more precisely, 1 hour glucose tolerance test. That implies taking a 75 gram glucose load (usually a sweetened drink is served) and measurement of glucose 1 hour after that. The test doesn't need to be done on empty stomach. If abnormal, it is followed by the 3 hour glucose tolerance test that is done on empty stomach.
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Dr. Fred Harveyanswered
Geriatrics 39 years experience
Lab tests: Check blood glucose and Insulin and do glucose tolerance test.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
What do you advise if i've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes but i'm sure i don't have it?
1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in
Dr. Stanley Schwartzanswered
Endocrinology 54 years experience
Get educated!!: If md says you fit criteria, even with no symptoms,
it must be treated aggressively to avoid fetal/maternal mortality/ morbidity
if you don't trust that md, get second opinion
but untreated , if you do have it, is a travesty, untreated.
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