Can gestational diabetes be prevented?

Can gestational diabetes be prevented?

Anne Peters, MD, FACP, CDE (Professor and Director of Clinical Diabetes Programs, USC Keck School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: How is gestational diabetes treated?; Can gestational diabetes be prevented? and more...

In some cases gestational diabetes can be prevented in women who are overweight and sedentary. Those women need to be encouraged to lose weight and to increase their activity prior to conception and then to avoid excessive weight gain throughout the pregnancy. There are some women, though, who just seem to get gestational diabetes, and we really can't prevent it which is why we need to screen women for gestational diabetes at 25 weeks into their pregnancy.