Article
Onset of autoimmune type 1 diabetes during pregnancy: Prevalence and outcomes.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Aug 2010
Wucher Hélène, Lepercq Jacques, Timsit José
Abstract excerpt
Although this has been recently challenged, gestational diabetes mellitus (gestational diabetes) is still defined as an "impairment of glucose tolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy". According to this definition, all pathophysiological conditions leading to beta cell deficiency may reveal as gestational diabetes, due to the physiological insulin resistance associated with pregnancy. In rare...
Topics
- Adult
- Autoantibodies
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes, Gestational
- Disease Progression
- Female
- Humans
- Islets of Langerhans
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Outcome