COVID-19 prompts Queensland researchers to develop quicker and easier gestational diabetes test

Coronavirus limitations have had one positive outcome for most expectant mothers by prompting Queensland researchers to come up with an alternative to a three-hour bladder-bursting test for gestational diabetes.

The researchers hope the alternative test will soon become a permanent option for many pregnant women.

About 15 per cent of pregnant Australians are diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), usually between the 24th and 28th weeks of pregnancy.

Because of this,…