Monique Hedderson, PhD, talks about the results of a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study showing that women who gained more weight during pregnancy than is recommend by the Institute of Medicine had a 50 percent increased risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus, or GDM. Hedderson, who at the time of this video had just had a baby herself, details some of the findings from the study, which was published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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