VIDEO: Prediabetes in pregnancy distinct from gestational diabetes
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In this video exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, talks with Nicole Gomez, MD, about implications of prediabetes in pregnancy.
Nguyen is assistant professor of clinical medicine, obstetrics and gynecology in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She is also a Healio | Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member. Gomez is assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the division of maternal and fetal medicine also at the Keck School of Medicine.
“[Prediabetes in pregnancy] is a gray area with a lot of gaps in research,” Gomez said.
One in four U.S. women of reproductive age has prediabetes, and about 50% of pregnant women with prediabetes will go to develop gestational diabetes with all of its risks for the mother and child, Gomez said. Whether prediabetes is early gestational diabetes or undiagnosed type 2 diabetes is not clear.
Gomez describes screening and management of prediabetes in pregnancy.
“What we’re not doing is treating them as if they’re diabetics,” she said.
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Gomez and Nguyen are speaking on this topic and more as part of the USC Jorge H. Mestman Endocrine and Pregnancy Symposium taking place in person and virtually Feb. 24.
Register for the symposium at keckusc.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=5&EID=7185.
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