Gestational diabetes: risk factors and comorbidity

Abstract

Gestational diabetes is characterized as a disorder the occurs within the first trimesters of pregnancy for the first time, causing weight gain, witch can cause short and long term health complication’s. There, the objective of this research was to analyze gestational diabetes risk factors and comorbidities, applying descriptive and explanatory documentary design methodology and national databases. It was possible to identify that among the causes that most influence the development of that disorder in the population of pregnant women are those related to diet and sedentary lifestyle, where the consumption of caloric foods and lack of physical activity occurs, taking into account family history. However, there were also socioeconomic or geographic causes. Among the complications are pathologies such as preëclampsia, metabolic syndrome, fetal macrosomia, in turn there was a greater risk of suffering from hypertension, diabetes in the future. Therefore, gestational diabetes is a health problem that can cause new pathologies, affecting the health of the mother and the newborn, and it is convenient from primary care and the same time institutional to implement measures for its prevention.