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Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is found in pregnant women that have never had insulin insensitivity or resistance and were never diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Doctors usually test for gestational diabetes through a glucose test about midway through pregnancy. For many women, their symptoms go away after they give birth with no trace of insulin resistance. Unfortunately --some may persist. Gestational diabetes is mostly due to the fact that placental hormones are very strong