Maternal Age and Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Maternal age and prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus.

betes after 82 months (6.8 years). This boy was hospitalized with severe D HUS when he was 6 years old. During his stay in the intensive care unit, he developed hyperglycemia and was treated with insulin during 21 days. Eighty months later he presented with nose obstruction and headache and was diagnosed with sinusitis and polyposis nasi. He was treated with antibiotics, but the complaints pers...

Screening gestational diabetes mellitus: The role of maternal age

OBJECTIVE Using a specific cutoff of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) to screen gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can reduce the use of oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT). Since the prevalence of GDM increases with age, this screening method may not be appropriate in healthcare systems where women become pregnant at older ages. Therefore, we aimed to develop a screening algorithm for GDM that ta...

Gestational diabetes mellitus

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...

Prevalence of Gestational diabetes mellitus in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Early screening of gestational diabetes mellitus using maternal hemoglobin A1C: Revision of current screening guidelines

Background: HbA1C has been a known predictor and diagnostic test for diabetes type 2. However, this test has not yet been widely studied in GDM and more importantly no cutoff point has been defined for HbA1C in GDM. We investigated the efficacy of screening during first and second trimester of pregnancy and defined appropriate cutoff points according to HbA1C and FBS for predicting maternal GDM...