Interconception care for women with a history of gestational diabetes for improving maternal and infant outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with adverse health outcomes for mothers and their infants both perinatally and long term. Women with a history of GDM are at risk of recurrence in subsequent pregnancies and may benefit from intervention in the interconception period to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Objectives

To assess the effects of interconception care for women with a history of GDM on maternal and infant health outcomes.

Search methods

We searched Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth's Trials Register (7 April 2017) and reference lists of retrieved studies.

Selection criteria

Randomised controlled trials, including quasi-randomised controlled trials and cluster-randomised trials evaluating any protocol of interconcep

SUBMITTER: Tieu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6483533 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature