Diabetes Danger Rises for Expectant Mothers

Need more evidence to convince you that diabetes is an insidious public health hazard? The rates of women with diabetes before they became pregnant doubled to nearly 2% in 2005 from 1999. iStockphoto Sure, even after the doubling, the absolute percentage seems small. But the trend is “extremely worrisome,” Dana Dabelea, who studies diabetes during pregnancy [...]