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Test Your Knowledge About Gestational Diabetes

Answer "true" or "false" to the following questions. Then check your answers to find out how much you know about gestational diabetes.

  1. Gestational diabetes usually occurs in the beginning weeks of pregnancy.
    True    False
  2. Gestational diabetes usually disappears after the pregnancy has ended.
    True    False
  3. Women who develop gestational diabetes during one pregnancy will be more likely to develop this condition during subsequent pregnancies.
    True    False
  4. Most women who develop gestational diabetes will need to take insulin injections.
    True    False
  5. Gestational diabetes can be easily diagnosed.
    True    False
  6. Some women are more at risk for developing gestational diabetes than others are.
    True    False
  7. Left untreated, gestational diabetes poses risks to the unborn baby.
    True    False
  8. Women who have had gestational diabetes are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes later in life.
    True    False

Sources:

American Diabetes Association
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
What Is Gestational Diabetes?
NIH Pub. No. 04-2788
Accessed June 2004

This screening assessment was reviewed and updated June 2007.

Tue, Dec 2, 2008



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