188 adoption of the IADPSG diagnostic criteria and to discuss the implications of this change " 2. When applying the IADPSG criteria on the HAPO cohort, the majority of women diagnosed with GDM were identified by the FPG and the 1-hour measurement of the 75 g OGTT (8.3% and 5.7% of the entire study population, respectively) 3. Adding the 2-hour measurement identified another 2.1%. Thus, alterna...

P regnancies complicated by diabetes are at increased risk of adverse fetal and maternal outcomes and longer-term health problems in the offspring. Treatments directed at improving glycemic control reduce these risks. However, observational studies show that pregnancies complicated by either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, compared with nondiabetic pregnancies , still have more adverse outcomes, inc...

Diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder affecting pregnancy. Its prevalence seems to be growing in parallel with the epidemics of overweight and obesity. Recognizing and treating diabetes or any degree of glucose intolerance in pregnancy results in lowering maternal and fetal complications. These patients present higher risk for excessive weight gain, preeclampsia, cesarean sections, a h...

Gestational diabetes (GD) is defined as carbohydrate intolerance that begins or is first diagnosed during pregnancy. Hyperglycemia is found only during pregnancy and diagnosis is confirmed when glucose tolerance test results return to normal levels in the postpartum (Metzger et al., 2007). GD occurs in around 4-10% of pregnancies; however, its incidence varies as a function of nutritional habit...

G estational diabetes mellitus (GDM), defined as carbohydrate intolerance first diagnosed during pregnancy (1), is a common medical complication of pregnancy, affecting 1.1–14.3% of pregnant women depending on the ethnic and clinical characteristics of the population and the diagnostic test employed (2). Ever since O’Sullivan and Mahan (3) published their criteria for diagnosis of GDM using a 1...

In a recent issue of Diabetes Care, Hernandez et al. (1) from the University of Colorado presented a comprehensive review of the 24-h glucose profile during pregnancy in women without diabetes. In the current issue, Harmon et al. (2) from the same institution present new observations on the glycemic profile of pregnant nondiabetic women, examining differences between obese and normal-weight mot...

The instinctive concern of a pregnant woman for her baby creates a receptive environment for advice, and so it is particularly important that medical recommendations during pregnancy should be factual and reasoned. In this issue ofDiabetes Care, Black et al. (1) have shown in a group of women who did not have gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) by traditional thresholds that maternal overweight...