Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), type two diabetes (T2DM), and obesity are on the rise in all populations and ethnicities throughout the United States causing serious health consequences.The foundation for this review was determined by an outpatient visit conducted at the clinical education center with a 45-year-old female who presented for complaints of fatigue and weight gain.It was then identified that this patient had poorly controlled T2DM, with a family history of T2DM, and who also had GDM with her last two pregnancies prior to her diagnosis of T2DM.This contributed to the systematic search for a correlation between GDM and the development of obesity and T2DM in the offspring and the current recommendations of management for these children.The literature review was conducted using CINAHL and PubMed.Multiple searches were completed using the keywords listed below.Upon further review, 15 were identified as relevant for this review.The findings of this literature review point to a correlation between GDM and the development of T2DM/obesity in their offspring.This implies that these children need closer monitoring when compared to children who were not exposed to diabetes in-utero.
Author: Breanna Ritchie
Language: English
Subfield: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3108527268