Women & Infants’ Werner nets diabetes grant

PROVIDENCE – The American Diabetes Association recently announced that it will provide $600,000 in funding to Women & Infants’ Dr. Erika Werner for a study on postpartum diabetes. Funding will initiate on Jan. 1, 2016.

Because some women develop high blood sugar levels during pregnancy and associated elevated risk for diabetes, testing those with the condition, known as gestational diabetes mellitus, is an important step to prevent the development of full-blown diabetes.

“Our proposal will determine how we can change postpartum care to better identify women with prediabetes and then intervene to reduce their diabetes risk,” Werner said.

Six hundred women will take part in the trial.

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