Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Squaring the Circle
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Gestational diabetes mellitus: squaring the circle.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a new classification and diagnostic criteria for hyperglycemia first diagnosed in pregnancy (1). These new criteria are an update of the 1999 WHO criteria, which defined gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) as diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance with onset or first recognition in pregnancy. This definition was not based on a review of ...
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Introduction: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. The prevalence range from 1 to 14% of all pregnancies, depending on the population studied and the diagnostic tests employed. Risk assessment for GDM should be undertaken at the prenatal visit. Women with clinical characteristics of GDM should und...
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DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) most commonly used to diagnose GDM in the United States is the 3-hour, 100-g OGTT. According to diagnostic criteria recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), GDM is diagnosed if two or more plasma glucose levels meet or exceed the following thresholds: fasting glucose concentration of 95 mg/dl, 1-hour glucose concentration...
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BACKGROUND Gestational diabetes mellitus, defined as diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy that is not clearly overt diabetes, is becoming more common as the epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes continues. Newly proposed diagnostic criteria will, if adopted universally, further increase the prevalence of this condition. Much controversy surrounds the diagnosis and management of gestational dia...
متن کاملGestational Diabetes Mellitus
Pregnancy induces progressive changes in maternal carbohydrate metabolism. As pregnancy advances insulin resistance and diabetogenic stress due to placental hormones necessitate compensatory increase in insulin secretion. When this compensation is inadequate gestational diabetes develops. Pregnancy that occurs in a woman who already has diabetes is termed ‘Pre-Gestational Diabetes Mellitus’. Bo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-0344