Gestational diabetes
What research knows about gestational diabetes comes from people who live with it. Here is how many do, what records they usually have, and what sharing yours is worth.
Living with it
14.0%
Global standardized prevalence of gestational diabetes (IADPSG criteria), IDF Diabetes Atlas 2021
sourceHow rare
Not classified yet: the evidence has no rate for it.
What patients usually have
The records behind gestational diabetes
Ultrasound monitoring of fetal growth and amniotic fluid volume
every 4 weeks from 28 to 36 weeks
guidelineAnnual HbA1c test after gestational diabetes
annually after a negative postnatal test
guidelineHome capillary blood glucose readings (fasting and 1-hour post-meal)
daily, from diagnosis until birth
guideline75-g 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)
once per pregnancy at 24 to 28 weeks (earlier as well after previous gestational diabetes)
guidelinePostnatal fasting plasma glucose test
once, 6 to 13 weeks after the birth
guideline
What sharing it is worth
$63
per licence for a complete story and one year of these records, $63 to $720
- Your health story$23how
- Scan reportsx1$2.79how
- Repeated lab resultsx2$0.42how
- Lab resultsx2$0.42how
- Richness premium (3 kinds of data linked)x2.33how
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