Those who titrated their own insulin experienced more rapid glycemic control and lower risks for macrosomia than when clinicians led titration. Both approaches resulted in similar mean fasting glucose ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with gestational diabetes, use of inhaled insulin was comparable ...

Oral glucose-lowering medications weren't up to snuff with insulin for gestational diabetes, a randomized clinical trial found. Among 820 individuals, 23.9% of infants born to mothers treated with a ...

In most cases, gestational diabetes goes away soon after childbirth due to a sudden decrease in pregnancy hormones and related insulin resistance. Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes. It ...

In some cases, a doctor may prescribe insulin to help manage gestational diabetes. However, other management methods and medications are available. Gestational diabetes (GD) is when a person ...

Overall, 79% of the participants randomly assigned to oral agents maintained glycemic control without insulin. Doortje Rademaker, MD, from the Amsterdam University Medical Center, and colleagues ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The proportion of large for gestational age infants was higher with oral agents vs. insulin therapy for women ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA, a group of researchers evaluated whether a treatment strategy using oral glucose-lowering agents (metformin and glyburide) is non-inferior to insulin in ...

Credit: Getty Images This literature review supports the use of metformin as an effective and safe treatment alternative to insulin for pregnant women with gestational diabetes. Another option for ...

Treatment of gestational diabetes with metformin, and glyburide if needed, does not meet noninferiority criteria versus insulin. (HealthDay News) — With respect to the proportion of infants born large ...