The results of a new study on diabetes during pregnancy are in, and the results are very troubling.

Many Women Who Are Pregnant And Diabetic Are Also Obese

Belliflower, CA - The results of a new study on diabetes during pregnancy are in, and the results are very troubling.

The rate of women who start their pregnancy with diabetes Type I or Type II has doubled since 1999, even though the rate of diabetes from gestational causes have stayed the same.

The results from certain age groups are even more troubling. The number of teenagers that are diabetic with Type I or II during their pregnancy have jumped by a factor of five.

“With women increasingly overweight and obese during pregnancy, more women will develop diabetes during their reproductive years,” said Jean Lawrence.

Dr. Lawrence is a scientist and researcher at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Belliflower, and a leader of the recent study.

The study involved 175,259 women in the Kaiser Permanente system that gave birth from 1999 to the year 2005. These women included ones with Type II and Type I diabetes.

The rate of women who had diabetes before their pregnancy was about 0.81 per 100 births in the year 1999, by the year 2005 the rate had jumped to 7.4 cases for every 100 births.

The likelihood that women would have diabetes and be obese before their pregnancy took a huge jump in the six years between 1999 and 2005. The experts who examined the data believe that much of this is due to the prevailing attitude on obesity and being overweight.