Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Association with Maternal and Neonatal Complications.

ABSTRACT: Background and objectives: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is known to be associated with pregnancy complications but there is limited evidence about the strength of these associations in recent clinical practice, especially after the introduction of strict guidelines for the management of pregnancies with GDM in a multidisciplinary team setting. The objectives of our study were to first compare the rates of complications in pregnancies with GDM with those that had pre-existing diabetes mellitus and those without diabetes; and second, to derive measures of effect size expressed as odds ratios after adjustment for confounding factors to assess the independent association of GDM in prediction of these pregnancy complications. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective co

SUBMITTER: Karkia R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10744613 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature