{"id":232327,"date":"2026-03-01T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/oral-corticosteroid-use-during-pregnancy-and-gestational-diabetes-risk"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:33:22","slug":"oral-corticosteroid-use-during-pregnancy-and-gestational-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/oral-corticosteroid-use-during-pregnancy-and-gestational-diabetes-risk","title":{"rendered":"Oral Corticosteroid Use During Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oral-corticosteroid-use-during-pregnancy-and-gestational-diabetes-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among pregnant women, oral corticosteroid use was not linked to higher rates of gestational diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>No substantial increase in risk was observed among women exposed to OCSs between 1 and 27 weeks\u2019 gestation, except for a slight increase during weeks 4\u20136. The findings remained consistent across age groups, indications, doses, and durations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Question Does oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy increase the risk of gestational diabetes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings<\/strong> In this cohort study of 1 325 940 pregnancies resulting in live births, oral corticosteroid use between 1 and 27 weeks\u2019 gestation was not associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes compared with unexposed pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meaning<\/strong> These results suggest that oral corticosteroid treatment during pregnancy does not elevate the risk of gestational diabetes and may be considered a reasonable therapeutic option for managing maternal conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among pregnant women, oral corticosteroid use was not linked to higher rates of gestational diabetes. No substantial increase in risk was observed among women exposed to OCSs between 1 and 27 weeks\u2019 gestation, except for a slight increase during weeks 4\u20136. The findings remained consistent across age groups, indications, doses, and durations. Question Does oral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}