The following factors may indicate gestational diabetes (gestational diabetes):
- Topical glucosuria – sugar in the urine.
- Current excessive weight gain
- Current polyhydramnios – pathological amniotic fluid proliferation.
- Current fetal macrosomia – large growth of the unborn child.
- Previous gestational diabetes
- Tendency to abortions (miscarriages)
- Birth of a child ≥ 4,500 g
- Birth of a child with severe malformations
- Proven passive glucose intolerance in own medical history.
- Diabetes mellitus in first-degree family members.
- Overweight/obesity (obesity)
- Diseases that can lead to insulin resistance (reduced effectiveness of the body’s own insulin at the target organs skeletal muscle, adipose tissue and liver) (eg, PCO syndrome).
- Drugs that act on glucose metabolism.
- The following ethnic groups: Africa, Central America, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia.
