Gestational Diabetes — Survey.- 1 Gestational Diabetes: A Survey and the Graz Approach to Diagnosis and Therapy.- Selected Topics on Gestational Diabetes.- A. The Significance of Gestational Diabetes.- 2 The World Scope of Gestational Diabetes.- B. On Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Features of Gestational Diabetes.- 3 Pathophysiological Background for Gestational Diabetes.- 4 The Human Placenta in Gestational Diabetes.- 5 Prevention of Placental Insufficiency Syndrom in Diabetic Pregnancies.- C. On Screening and Diagnostics in Gestational Diabetes.- 6 Gestational Diabetes, Significance of Risk Factors and Results of a Follow-up Study 8 Years After Delivery.- 7 The Oral 100 g-Glucose-Tolerance Test—Special Criteria for Evaluation in Late Pregnancy.- 8 Glucosylated Proteins in Normal and Diabetic Pregnancy.- 9 Glycosylated Haemoglobins and Neonatal Macrosomia.- 10 Recurrence of Gestational Diabetes in Subsequent Pregnancies.- D. On Prophylaxis and Therapy in Gestational Diabetes.- 11 Preconceptional Diabetes Counseling in Gestational Diabetes.- 12 The Use of Prophylactic Insulin in Women with Gestational Diabetes.- 13 Insulin Treatment of Gestational Diabetes. The Basal Bolus Concept.- E. On the Fetus and Newborn of Gestational Diabetic Women.- 14 Fetal Consequences of Maternal Diabetes.- 15 Macrosomia and Birth Trauma in Infants of Diet Treated Gestational Diabetic Women.- 16 Fetal Hemoglobin in the Infant of Gestational Diabetic Mothers (IGDM).- 17 Somatometric Study in the Infant of Gestational Diabetic Mother.- 18 The Impact of Diet-induced Ketosis During Pregnancy on the Offspring.- F. On Oral Contraception in Gestational Diabetes.- 19 Oral Contraceptives in Women with Previous Gestational Diabetes: Influence on Glucose Metabolism.- G. On the Further Fate ofWomen Who Had Gestational Diabetes.- 20 Follow-up Studies in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. The Experience at Los Angeles Country/University of Southern California Medical Center.- 21 The Emergence of Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Women Who Had Gestational Diabetes.- References.- Acknowledgements and Grants.