Altria has been hammered since the FDA announcement wiped out billions of stock value.Even the latest dividend hike could only temporary halt the selling.Altria's upcoming ex-dividend date provides an
Gestational diabetes happens when you have too much sugar (glucose) in your blood during pregnancy. Your blood sugar levels can go up when your body isn't producing enough of a hormone called insulin. Insulin helps: While you're expecting, your body has to make extra insulin, especially from mid-pregnancy onwards.
A serious illness in the mother, such as an under-active thyroid, or diabetes mellitus, in which her body cannot process sugar, also can cause birth defects in the child. In fact, in 2003, it was shown that babies of diabetic mothers are five times as likely to have structural heart defects as other babies.