New AI tool can predict gestational diabetes risk before pregnancy: Report
Health
News:
Researchers have developed an algorithm which can predict the risk of
gestational diabetes even before pregnancy, an advance that may lead
to lifestyle interventions for reducing high blood sugar which
affects nearly one in six pregnant women.
The
study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, analysed data on
nearly 6,00,000 pregnancies available from Israel's largest health
organisation, Clalit Health Services.
"Our
ultimate goal has been to help the health system take measures so as
to prevent diabetes from occurring in pregnancy," said study
senior author Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Israel.
According
to the researchers, gestational diabetes is characterised by high
blood sugar levels which occur during pregnancy in women with no
history of diabetes.
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