Supplements Found to Ease Gestational Diabetes

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Supplements Found to Ease Gestational Diabetes

Calcium and vitamin D supplementation can reduce blood sugar levels in women with gestational diabetes and improve other measures of metabolic health, a small randomized trial has found.

Gestational diabetes, or the development of high blood glucose levels during pregnancy in women who were not previously diabetic, affects about 7 percent of women in the United States. It can lead to serious birth complications and may increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes later in life.

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