Jon M. Nakamoto, MD, PhD, is laboratory medical director for Quest Diagnostics and an associate professor of pediatrics and endocrinology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coauthor, with other Quest Diagnostics medical experts, of a study on gestational and postpartum diabetes screening published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
There’s a vitally important screening test that expectant and new moms need to protect their babies’ health and their own.…