ArticleDiabetologia2011
Diagnosing gestational diabetes.
Article in Diabetologia, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02978807 (Establishing the Prevalance and Accuracy of Different Diagnostic Techniques for Gestational Diabetes in the Resource-constrained Setting of Eldoret, Kenya), which is not on this map. Cited by 66 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Establishing the Prevalance and Accuracy of Different Diagnostic Techniques for Gestational Diabetes in the Resource-constrained Setting of Eldoret, Kenya
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 202 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Relationship Between Myo-Inositol Supplementary and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis.Medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- Association of iron status during early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes: a retrospective cohort study in Shanghai.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Portable Home-Use Triglyceride Meter Demonstrates Good Agreement With Plasma Laboratory Measures During Pregnancies Complicated by Metabolic Disease.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2026Article
- Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Gestational Diabetes Using Different Diagnostic Criteria: A Study from the Northern Adriatic Region of Croatia.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Sustained Higher Levels of Plasma hsa-miR-17-5p Expression During Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Postpartum.Epigenomes · 2025Article
- Maternal and Cord Blood Lipids in Pregnant Women With Obesity and Their Impact on Neonatal and Placental Biometric Features.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Maternal and Neonatal Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Myo-Inositol in Women With or at High Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2025Article
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- Gestational weight trajectory and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among women with gestational diabetes mellitus: A retrospective cohort study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Glucometabolic Alterations in Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity but without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: An Observational Study.Obesity facts · 2024Observational
- New Developments, Challenges and Open Questions in Diagnosis and Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- A Predictive Model for Large-for-Gestational-Age Infants among Korean Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Using Maternal Characteristics and Fetal Biometric Parameters.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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- Interactive Affection of Pre-Pregnancy Overweight or Obesity, Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Glucose Tolerance Test Characteristics on Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Observational
- Impact of Risk Factors on Short and Long-Term Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Maternal metabolic health drives mesenchymal stem cell metabolism and infant fat mass at birth.JCI insight · 2021Article
- lncRNA SNHG17 is Downregulated in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Has Predictive Values.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
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Abstract
The newly proposed criteria for diagnosing gestational diabetes will result in a gestational diabetes prevalence of 17.8%, doubling the numbers of pregnant women currently diagnosed. These new diagnostic criteria are based primarily on the levels of glucose associated with a 1.75-fold increased risk of giving birth to large-for-gestational age infants (LGA) in the Hyperglycemia Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study; they use a single OGTT. Thus, of 23,316 pregnancies, gestational diabetes would be diagnosed in 4,150 women rather than in 2,448 women if a twofold increased risk of LGA were used. It should be recognised that the majority of women with LGA have normal glucose levels during pregnancy by these proposed criteria and that maternal obesity is a stronger predictor of LGA. The expected benefit of a diagnosis of gestational diabetes in these 1,702 additional women would be the prevention of 140 cases of LGA, 21 cases of shoulder dystocia and 16 cases of birth injury. The reproducibility of an OGTT for diagnosing mild hyperglycaemia is poor. Given that (1) glucose is a weak predictor of LGA, (2) treating these extra numbers has a modest outcome benefit and (3) the diagnosis may be based on a single raised OGTT value, further debate should occur before resources are allocated to implementing this change.
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