One of the hardest diseases to treat in otherwise healthy people is diabetes.  Given fluctuations in food consumption, hormone level, and other body changes that are hard to track from day to day, treating diabetes is a nightmare.  Treating diabetes is even worse in pregnant women, whose bodies are haywire even without blood sugar problems.  Untreated diabetes can be dangerous for the mother and the baby, but health experts have discovered a possible treatment.  A closed-loop insulin delivery system or artificial pancreas has been shown to help pregnant women maintain normal, steady levels of blood sugar in spite of diabetes.

“To discover an artificial pancreas can help maintain near-normal glucose levels in these women is very promising,” said study lead Helen Murphy of Cambridge University.

According to previous research, pregnant women with type 1 diabetes spend an average of 10 hours a day with glucose or blood sugar levels out of the recommended zone.  Babies of diabetis women are five times as likely to be stillborn, three times as likely to die in their first months of life, and twice as likely to have a major deformity.  Obviously, getting diabetes under control in pregnant women is very important.

First, the pregnant; tomorrow, everyone!

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