Effectivness of specific mobile health applications (mHealth-apps) in gestational diabtetes mellitus: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) emerges worldwide and is closely associated with short- and long-term health issues in women and their offspring, such as pregnancy and birth complications respectively comorbidities, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), metabolic syndrome as well as cardiovascular diseases. Against this background, mobile health applications (mHealth-Apps) do open up new possibilities to improve the management of GDM. Therefore, we analyzed the clinical effectiveness of specific mHealth-Apps on clinical health-related short and long-term outcomes in mother and child.

Methods

A systematic literature search in Medline (PubMed), Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL and Web of Science Core Collection databases as well as Google Scholar was performed. We selected stu

SUBMITTER: Eberle C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8645100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature