Foetal outcome in gestational diabetes in south Indians

Glucose tolerance in pregnancy in South India: relationships to neonatal anthropometry

“…For a number of reasons, we believe that the high incidence of GDM in our study could well reflect the situation in the community as a whole. The characteristics of our mothers and babies were similar to those reported for other South Indian populations (10,11). HMH is one of three large maternity units in Mysore and is situated in a relatively poor area of the city.…”

Screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Twenty-six prevalence estimates used a 2-step method: a screening test (usually a 50 g glucose challenge test (GCT)), followed by an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) [11, 12, 26, 28, 29, 34, 35, 43, 46, 48, 51, 53, 60, 62–64, 68, 69, 74–76]. GCT cutoffs ranged from 130 to 150 mg/dL, and prevalence estimates using 2-step methods ranged from 0.0 to 23.3%, with a median of 6.0%.…”

“…The most commonly observed risk factors were higher BMI (twenty-six studies [13, 20, 22, 23, 29, 30, 34, 37–39, 41–43, 45, 49, 51, 52, 55, 60, 61, 65–67, 75, 76]), older age (twenty-five studies [12, 18, 26, 30, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41–43, 46, 48–50, 52, 55, 56, 60, 66, 67, 72, 73, 75, 76]), and family history of diabetes mellitus (twenty-four studies [9, 18–21, 25, 29, 30, 33, 34, 37–39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 52, 55, 61, 66, 67, 72, 76]). Other observed risk factors include history of spontaneous abortions or stillbirths (nine studies [21, 33, 34, 39, 42, 53, 65, 66, 76]), history of macrosomia (7 studies [39, 42, 43, 45, 66, 72, 75]), multiparity (7 studies [11, 13, 39, 45, 52, 72, 76]), and higher socioeconomic status (5 studies [13] Hill, 2005 #21} […”

Association between maternal diabetes mellitus and the risk of congenital malformations: A meta-analysis of cohort studies

“…After examining these articles in more detail, a further 53 studies were excluded. At the end of this process, 21 studies were included in the meta-analysis (5,7,8,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31).…”