Gestational Diabetes

2. What will cause hypoxia, increase ROS, and cause placental angiogenesis?
6. What is the placental hormone primarily responsible for modulating maternal glucose metabolism, acting to increase insulin resistance?
7. What is a critical parameter in the management of GDM, that reduces the risk of congenital anomalies during organogenesis?
10. Unique pattern of fetal over growth, associated with increased risk of shoulder dystocia and brachial plexus trauma.
11. Lipolytic effects lead to an increase ________ and provide a different fuel source to conserve glucose and amino acids for the fetus.
12. What is the state in which pregnancy induces insulin resistance to prioritise fetal nutrient uptake?

1. What is upregulated and favours increased glucose transfer even with well controlled diabetes?
3. Glucose can cross the placenta, but _____ cannot.
4. What is the class of medication, aside from insulin, sometimes considered for GDM management due to its insulin-sensitising effects?
5. Maternal hyperglycaemia will cause fetal hyperglycaemia which will _____ insulin within the fetal circulation.
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9. What is the long-term metabolic condition GDM patients are at increased risk of, necessitating lifestyle interventions and postpartum screening?