Gestational diabetes and exercise: a survey.
Exercise has long been accepted as an adjunctive nonmedical intervention in the management of diabetes in nonpregnant subjects. It is universally accepted that pregnancy is a diabetogenic event which could develop into gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in up to 12% of pregnant women. GDM, a carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy, involves a relative resistance to insulin. Exercise becomes thus a logical intervention, only recently offered as an adjunctive therapy to pregnant diabetics. This article reviews our current understanding of the role of exercise in the management of GDM.
Bung
P
P
Women's Hospital, University of Bonn, FRG.
Artal
R
R
D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D011247:Pregnancy
D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin