background: gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a form of diabetes that occurs in pregnancy. gdm, defined as glucose intolerance, first diagnosed or initiated during pregnancy affects 1-14% of pregnancies based on various studies. screening and early diagnosis and appropriate glycemic control can improve prenatal outcomes. telephone follow-up seems to be a reasonable way for pregnant women f...

OBJECTIVE Opportunistic screening for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes (either impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose) is recommended by the American Diabetes Association. The aim of this study was to determine efficient cutoff points for three screening tests for detecting undiagnosed diabetes alone or both undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AN...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether measuring fasting plasma glucose concentration is an easier screening procedure for gestational diabetes mellitus than the 1 hour 50 g glucose challenge test. DESIGN Prospective population based study. SETTING Outpatient clinic in a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS 520 pregnant women (328 (63%) white, 99 (19%) Asian, 31 (6%) African, 62 (12%) others) with me...

OBJECTIVE Although screening for diabetes and prediabetes is recommended, it is not clear how best or whom to screen. We therefore compared the economics of screening according to baseline risk. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Five screening tests were performed in 1,573 adults without known diabetes--random plasma/capillary glucose, plasma/capillary glucose 1 h after 50-g oral glucose (any time,...

a standard breakfast was evaluated as a screening test (bt) for gestational diabetes in a case-control study. blood sugar (bs) was measured 1 hour after a breakfast that had 50gr simple sugar and was designed based on women preferences. in the same women glucose challenge test (gct, 50gr 1hour glucose screening test) was performed one week later in randomized sequential. cutoff values for both ...