Search for: [Abstract = "Gestational diabetes occurs in about 1\-14% of pregnant women. It is a reason for 90% of carbohydrate disorders in pregnant women. Gestational diabetes is a serious health hazard for the fetus causing macrosomia and associated peripartum injury, metabolic disorders and developmental defects and it endangers the health of mothers. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate a relationship between 1\). lipid disorders observed in women with gestational diabetes and other signs of metabolic syndrome, and control of carbohydrate metabolism 2\). lipid disorders and complications of gestational diabetes such as macrosomia in women with gestational diabetes. in pregnant women. The study group consisted of 557 pregnant women receiving treatment at the Out\-patient Department for Pregnant Diabetics. Of them 346 women had gestational diabetes treated by diet \(group 1\), 169 by diet plus insulin \(group 2\) and 42 women had a positive screening test but the result was not confirmed by 75 gram\- glucose challenge test \(GCT\) \(group 3\). The mean age of the patients was 30±6 years, mean glucose concentration at 2 hrs 8.2±1.9 mmol\/l and mean gestational age was 28.6±5.7 weeks. Apart from the higher, as expected, fasting glycemia and at 2 hrs after GCT and higher HbA1c in group 1 and 2, the study subgroups did not differ with respect to fasting insulinemia and at 2 hrs postprandially, serum"]

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