Article: WIDE RANGE OF BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS IN PREGNANCY RAISE RISK TO UNBORN BABIES AND MOTHERS

Northwestern University issued the following news release:

A wider range of blood sugar levels - not just levels currently diagnosed as gestational diabetes - may put pregnant women and their unborn babies at risk, according to new research from Northwestern University, which conducted the largest study on the problem.

The research is the first to show the greater the blood sugar level of the mother, the greater the risk of having a high birth-weight baby and a first-time Caesarean section. The study showed even some pregnant women considered to have normal blood sugar levels may be at risk.

"There is a strong and continuing relationship between risk factors and blood sugar over a broad ...

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