The impact of diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes on its prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The absence of universal gold standards for screening of gestational diabetes (GDM) has led to heterogeneity in the identification of GDM, thereby impacting the accurate estimation of the prevalence of GDM. We aimed to evaluate the effect of different diagnostic criteria for GDM on its prevalence among general populations of pregnant women worldwide, and also to investigate the prevalence of GDM based on various geographic regions.

Methods

A comprehensive literature search was performed in PubMed, Scopus and Google-scholar databases for retrieving articles in English investigating the prevalence of GDM. All populations were classified to seven groups based-on their diagnostic criteria for GDM. Heterogeneous and non-heterogeneous results were analyzed using the fix

SUBMITTER: Behboudi-Gandevani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6359830 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature