Gestational diabetes in the United States: temporal changes in prevalence rates between 1979 and 2010.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine age-period-cohort effects on trends in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) prevalence in the US, and to evaluate how these trends have affected the rates of stillbirth and large for gestational age (LGA)/macrosomia.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

USA, 1979-2010.

Population

Over 125 million pregnancies (3 337 284 GDM cases) associated with hospitalisations.

Methods

Trends in GDM prevalence were examined via weighted Poisson models to parse out the extent to which GDM trends can be attributed to maternal age, period of delivery, and maternal birth cohort. Multilevel models were used to assess the contribution of population effects to the rate of GDM. Log-linear Poisson regression models were used to estimate the contributio

SUBMITTER: Lavery JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303559 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature