Fatores de risco no desenvolvimento de diabetes gestacional

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is defined as a disease resulting from endocrine-metabolic abnormality, which is classified as an absolute deficiency of the hormone insulin or resistance to its action that triggers high levels of serum glucose, which leads to interference entry of glucose into the cell, increasing the plasmatic concentration. Being characterized by being a common metabolic problem during pregnancy, with a prevalence of 3 to 25% of pregnancies, becoming defined as an intolerance to carbohydrates, in various degrees. To identify the risk factors that influence the development of gestational diabetes. This work can be defined as a systematic literature review. For the execution of the work, original scientific articles were searched on gestational diabetes mellitus, high-risk pregnancy, glycemic control and risks of gestational diabetes. Carrying out the analysis of the studies, it is possible to say that the risk factors in the development of gestational diabetes mellitus are caused by several reasons, among them the analyzed studies verified that the majority of the women who presented gestational diabetes mellitus during their pregnancy, presented factors risk factors such as overweight/obesity both pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy, in addition to maternal age (over 30 years), number of pregnancies, family history (1st-degree relatives) and history of gestational diabetes in another pregnancy. The present work, through the scientific bias, finds that several factors contribute to the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus, among them are overweight, obesity, maternal age, excess weight gain during pregnancy, number of pregnancies and deliveries, family history and history of another pregnancy.