When did gestational diabetes become a diagnosis?
July 17, 2009 by Diabetes and Blood Glucose Tips
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I am trying to find out more about the history of gestational diabetes. I am finding plenty of articles about people having a personal or family history of it, but what I am looking for is when the medical community starting using the phrase “gestational diabetes” rather than only talking about diabetes and pregnancy. I found an article from 1986 in a medical journal that mentions it, but nothing before that.
I am trying to find out more about the history of gestational diabetes. I am finding plenty of articles about people having a personal or family history of it, but what I am looking for is when the medical community starting using the phrase “gestational diabetes” rather than only talking about diabetes and pregnancy. I found an article from 1986 in a medical journal that mentions it, but nothing before that.
Does anybody know where there might be more information about this?
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Diabetes Feedback: Its hard to say exactly when this phrase came into vogue. The condition has been recognized as far back as diabetes itself under various names. It is still identified by various phrases such as gestational glucose intolerance, sub-clinical diabetes during pregnancy, diabetes during pregnancy, gestational pre-diabetes.
In references listed by Google Scholar, the phrase first appears in 1982, but my mom was a nurse and i know that she used the phrase in the 1970s.
Diabetes Feedback: Ouch! I found some very dry, boring information, *but* the answer seems to be 1979:
“A Short History of Gestational Diabetes as a Clinical Entity
GD as a clinical entity officially began in 1979 when the National Diabetes Data Group (NDDG) issued an updated classification of diabetes types, including one that was present only during pregnancy. In 1979, the First International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus also met, essentially declared GD a disease, finding it a significant health risk that needed treatment. Instead of the more neutral “Carbohydrate Intolerance of Pregnancy”, the term “Gestational Diabetes Mellitus” was used (often shortened in various resources to Gestational Diabetes, GD, or GDM). Authorities felt that if the term ‘diabetes’ was used, women would be more likely to take the diagnosis seriously and insurance companies would be much more likely to cover treatment for it.”