A Clinical study on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

Abstract

Gestational diabetes mellitus and pregnancy induced hypertension are the most commonly encountered problems that occur during pregnancy and may lead to serious complications. Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality were found to be high and potentially harm both the fetus and mother. The impact of diseases continues even after the delivery to both mother and child. The GDM affected women have 50% more chances to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus than normal women. The offspring s of GDM mother too affected with childhood obesity. The preterm birth and intra uterine growth retardation leaves some traces on child hood growth, those exposed children shows slow growth mentally and physically compared to non-exposed children. The maternal mortality rate is still high with hypertensive disorders than any other complications during pregnancy. But the recognition is still low to these complications. First, this study would definitely create awareness about these complications in public. The awareness will draw complete attention and cooperation in the management of diseases. Our study suggests the possibilities of identifying the susceptible women by assessing the risk factors very early even before the pregnancy. Early detection and early treatment gives a complete understanding to health care professionals throughout the remaining pregnancy period. Awareness and education about this model to society will make the women knowledgeable and confident to fight against this illness. We have aimed and developed a strategic tool to find out the susceptibility of women to have these complications. This is basically a prediction tool assessing the biological risk factors of women. Since the tool developed with small and single ethnic population it needs a widespread data from different ethnic to become an adoptive model as a screening tool. Once this model is successively developed, this will be an easy tool to screen the women in low resources settings and rural areas. newline