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Gestational Diabetes Injury

Gestational diabetes mellitus is defined as glucose intolerance with onset or first detection during pregnancy. GDM occurs in 2-5 percent of all pregnancies, or approximately 135,000 cases annually in the United States. Major risk factors for developing GDM include increasing maternal age, family history of diabetes, history of GDM in a prior pregnancy, and increased pregravid BMI. The prevalence of GDM varies in direct proportion to the prevalence of type-2 diabetes in a given population or ethnic group. GDM is more common among African American, Hispanic, and American Indian women and less common among Asian women.

Prevalence of GDM in women with defined low-risk factors, such as being of white ethnic origin, being younger than 25 years, and having a BMI of less than 25 kg/m2, ranges from 1.4 percent to 2.8 percent. The prevalence of GDM in women with defined high-risk factors, such as being older than 25 years, being obese, or having a family history of diabetes, ranges from 3.3 percent to 6.1 percent.

GDM has been linked to increased maternal perinatal morbidity (resulting from an increase in cesarean deliveries and forceps or vacuum extraction, as well as third- and fourth-degree lacerations), principally through its association with fetal macrosomia.

Macrosomia is associated with an increased risk for neonatal adverse effects, such as brachial plexus injuries and clavicular fracture.

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