Overall, 79% of the participants randomly assigned to oral agents maintained glycemic control without insulin. Doortje Rademaker, MD, from the Amsterdam University Medical Center, and colleagues ...

Frequency of primary outcome was 27.6 and 23.4% in glyburide and insulin groups, respectively. (HealthDay News) — For women with gestational diabetes, glyburide is not noninferior to insulin, ...

Rates of gestational diabetes in the US increased unabated from 2016 to 2024, as revealed by a new study by Northwestern ...

Gestational diabetes arises when the body cannot produce sufficient insulin during pregnancy, leading to high blood sugar, but a healthy lifestyle may reduce the risk. The condition often presents ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA, a group of researchers evaluated whether a treatment strategy using oral glucose-lowering agents (metformin and glyburide) is non-inferior to insulin in ...

An abstract presented at CHEST 2021 showed that women who entered pregnancy with sleep-disordered breathing were associated with higher levels of insulin resistance and potential risk of gestational ...

During pregnancy, the placenta secretes hormones that increase insulin resistance, which may cause gestational diabetes (GD). Left untreated, diabetes can damage the placenta. GD begins in the ...

There seems to be a connection between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity. Studies suggest that gestational diabetes increases the risk of childhood obesity. Share on Pinterest VlarVix/Getty ...

Treatment of gestational diabetes with metformin, and glyburide if needed, does not meet noninferiority criteria versus insulin. (HealthDay News) — With respect to the proportion of infants born large ...