Life Styles and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among Women in Pakistan

Abstract

Due to the serious risk and negative health impacts of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM), maternal health has been receiving a lot of study focus. A lot of study has been done on maternal health and gestational diabetes mellitus. GDM is the utmostpublic health issue among pregnant females. It's the utmost frequent metabolic illness among pregnant women, afflicting up to a quarter of them. However, new evidence reveals that cardiometabolic disease is linked to gestational diabetesissues in both the maternal and the kid. As a result, GDM is a significant concern for healthcare providers in the twenty-first century. Individual healthy habits have been related to a lower incidence of GDM, but the link between a healthy composition lifestyle and GDM has yet to be investigated.As a result, the goal of this research was to investigate the association between lifestyle choices and gestational diabetes in pregnant females. Before being aggregated a total lifestyle score (ranging from 0 to 4), healthy/unhealthy lifestyle components were dichotomized. A total of 500 pregnant women were surveyed. Women with diabetes are equally prone to reproductive problems, according to the findings of this study. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), obesity, and hyperinsulinemia all coexist, among other factors, are largely to blame for diabetes-related reproductive dysfunctions. Furthermore, a composite indicator of a healthy lifestyle throughout the first trimester of pregnancy was linked to a decreased incidence of GDM in this study. GDM prevention should include public health messaging and interventions that promote several early pregnancy components of a healthy lifestyle.