Gestational diabetes can occur in some pregnant women and is similar to Type 2 diabetes.

If diabetes occurs during pregnancy, the mother often has no symptoms.

If a woman becomes too insulin-resistant, gestational diabetes can occur.

When insulin is deficient or cells become resistant to it, diabetes occurs.

Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy in some women.

Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes occurs in younger people and affects about a million Americans.

If this compensatory increase does not occur, blood glucose concentrations increase and type 2 diabetes occurs.

However, type 2 diabetes does not occur unless there is concurrent failure of compensatory insulin secretion.

Gestational diabetes occurs in 1 to 3 percent of pregnancies in the United States.

Brittle diabetes occurs no more frequently than in 1% to 2% of diabetics.