{"id":7230,"date":"2023-01-06T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:21:30","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-mothers-with-gestational-diabetes-by-maternal-age-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2016-and-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/01\/06\/7230\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes, by Maternal Age \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2016 and 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7201a4.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7201a4-F.gif?_=44828\" width=\"556\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of mothers giving birth who received a diagnosis of diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) increased from 6.0% in 2016 to 8.3% in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Increases in gestational diabetes were seen in each maternal age group, and rates rose steadily with maternal age; in 2021, the rate for mothers aged \u226540 years (15.6%) was nearly six times as high as the rate for mothers aged &lt;20 years (2.7%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7201a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7201a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of mothers giving birth who received a diagnosis of diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) increased from 6.0% in 2016 to 8.3% in 2021. Increases in gestational diabetes were seen in each maternal age group, and rates rose steadily with maternal age; in 2021, the rate for mothers aged \u226540 years (15.6%) was nearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,29100,62276,63678,47317,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}