Continuous Glucose Monitoring for the Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is diabetes first diagnosed in pregnancy. GDM, together with its short- and long-term negative outcomes, is increasing in incidence all over the world. The current diagnostic method for GDM, the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), is dated and has been reported as inconvenient for women as well as poorly reproducible and reliable.

Aims

We aimed at assessing the acceptability, feasibility, and accuracy of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) as a diagnostic test for GDM and explore its correlation with the OGTT and risk factors for GDM.

Methods

In this prospective cohort study, pregnant women due for or having completed OGTT underwent CGM for seven days, performing daily finger-prick blood glucose levels before completing a

SUBMITTER: Di Filippo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9592228 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature