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Medical Nutrition Therapy for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Second Edition
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The completion of this CPE activity will assist nutrition professionals in improving maternal and fetal outcomes when gestational diabetes complicates a pregnancy. You will discover how to:
- Improve maternal and fetal outcomes when GDM complicates a pregnancy
- Apply GDM management interventions—monitoring, medical nutrition
therapy (MNT), physical activity, and medications
- Recommend glucose goals for GDM and rationale for additional pharmaceutical
therapy
- Discuss issues related to the use of glyburide and metformin during
GDM pregnancies
- Plan and implement strategies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes
in women with prior GDM
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MEDICAL
NUTRITION THERAPY FOR GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS, Second Edition
© 2024 Wolf Rinke Associates. All rights reserved for this self-directed accredited learning activity. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission, except for brief excerpts, is prohibited.
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this accredited, self-directed learning program,
the nutrition professional should be able to:
- State the definition of gestational diabetes and screening criteria for testing for diabetes or prediabetes at the first prenatal visit in asymptomatic pregnant women.
- Describe the two diagnostic criteria for GDM and assess the reasons for the controversy on which criteria should be implemented.
- Explain the pathophysiology of glucose intolerance during pregnancy.
- Identify maternal and fetal complications if glucose control is not achieved.
- Recommend glucose goals for women with GDM.
- Apply the GDM management interventions—self-management education, glucose monitoring, MNT, and physical activity, that apply to all women with GDM, and medications if glucose target goals are not met.
- Recognize the MNT goals during pregnancy.
- Implement assessments needed in order to provide MNT for GDM.
- Plan and implement nutrition interventions for women with GDM.
- Apply energy and weight gain recommendations for normal weight and obese women with GDM.
- Apply recommendations for carbohydrate, protein, fat, and micronutrient intakes for GDM.
- Implement an individualized eating plan.
- Recommend guidelines and precautions for physical activity.
- Recognize emotional responses of women diagnosed with GDM.
- Monitor and evaluate outcomes from MNT and identify the need to add pharmacologic therapy.
- Evaluate pharmacologic therapies and discuss issues related to the use of glucose-lowering medications during GDM pregnancies
- Describe the use of insulin in GDM.
- Provide or plan for follow-up and ongoing nutrition care for the woman with GDM.
- Implement recommendations for postpartum glucose evaluation.
- Plan and implement strategies for the prevention of T2D in women with prior GDM.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Diane Reader has been a manager of diabetes professional training programs at International Diabetes Center since 2000. She has extensive experience providing nutrition education and counseling at the Park Nicollet Medical Center for adults with all types of diabetes. Diane is nationally known as an advocate for quality diabetes education and her work in gestational diabetes. She served on the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association and was chair of the Education Recognition Program Committee from 2005-2007.
A special area of interest of hers has been gestational diabetes. She haslectured on this subject extensively, including at the 5th International Conference on Gestational Diabetes in November 2005. She has been chair or a committee member for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Nutrition Practice Guideline for Gestational Diabetes since the first edition in 1997 through the current 5th edition published in 2016. She has authored the booklets Gestational Diabetes and Taking Care of Gestational Diabetes andthe GDM BASICS client book and curriculum published by the International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet, Minneapolis, Minn.
Diane has been active with the Diabetes Care and Education Practice group for many years, receiving their Distinguished Service Award in 2005. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Minnesota and completed their Coordinated Undergraduate Program.
Marion J. Franz is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a certified diabetes educator with a master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Minnesota. She is a nutrition/health consultant with Nutrition Concepts by Franz, Inc. For more than 20 years she was the Director of Nutrition and Health Professional Education at the International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis. She has authored books, numerous articles in professional and lay journals, and chapters in texts and manuals for professionals and the lay public. She lectures frequently in the United States and internationally on nutrition, exercise, and diabetes. She has co-chaired and been a member of task forces to write the American Diabetes Association’s nutrition recommendations and technical reviews, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ nutrition practice guidelines for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and an editor of the American Diabetes Association Guide to Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition. She received the 2001 American Diabetes Association Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes, the American Dietetic Association 2006 Medallion Award, the American Dietetic Association 2008 Huddleson Award, and the 2012 American Association of Diabetes Educators Living Legend Award.
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