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Update on gestational diabetes

In this issue, we are very pleased to bring to you the papers from the 2009 Conference of the Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group of North America, hosted by Dr. E. Albert Reece, Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. These papers represent the most recent advances in the field of care and management of gestational diabetes mellitus, which has emerged as a serious public health issue in North America and other parts of the world. The authors are outstanding scholars and investigators in this field. I am sure our readers would agree that these papers will increase our depth of understanding and potentially improve our management of this important expanding complication of pregnancy. We deeply appreciate the endeavors of this group and especially of Dr. Reece in bringing this volume together.