Causes
Causes ( 6 Questions)
A nurse is providing education to a pregnant woman diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
The nurse explains that gestational diabetes primarily occurs due to:.
Gestational diabetes primarily occurs due to hormonal changes during pregnancy affecting insulin production and action.
Insulin is a hormone that helps your body use glucose for energy and control your blood glucose levels.
During pregnancy, your body makes special hormones and goes through other changes that cause insulin resistance, meaning your cells don’t use insulin well.
Most pregnant women can produce enough insulin to overcome insulin resistance, but some cannot. These women develop gestational diabetes.
Genetic factors are not the main cause of gestational diabetes, although having a family history of diabetes may increase the risk.
Inadequate dietary intake of glucose during pregnancy does not cause gestational diabetes. However, eating healthy foods and controlling weight gain are important for managing gestational diabetes.
An autoimmune response targeting the pancreas is not the cause of gestational diabetes.
Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system attacks your own cells. Type 1 diabetes is an example of an autoimmune disease that affects the pancreas and causes insulin deficiency.
Gestational diabetes is not an autoimmune disease and does not affect the pancreas.
The correct answer is choice A. Gestational diabetes primarily occurs due to hormonal changes during pregnancy affecting insulin production and action.
Insulin is a hormone that helps your body use glucose for energy and control your blood glucose levels.
During pregnancy, your body makes special hormones and goes through other changes that cause insulin resistance, meaning your cells don’t use insulin well.
Most pregnant women can produce enough insulin to overcome insulin resistance, but some cannot. These women develop gestational diabetes.
Choice B is wrong because genetic factors are not the main cause of gestational diabetes, although having a family history of diabetes may increase the risk.
Choice C is wrong because inadequate dietary intake of glucose during pregnancy does not cause gestational diabetes. However, eating healthy foods and controlling weight gain are important for managing gestational diabetes.
Choice D is wrong because an autoimmune response targeting the pancreas is not the cause of gestational diabetes.
Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system attacks your own cells. Type 1 diabetes is an example of an autoimmune disease that affects the pancreas and causes insulin deficiency.
Gestational diabetes is not an autoimmune disease and does not affect the pancreas.