Prevalence and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes in Punjab, North India - Results from a Population Screening Program.

Summary, in English

World Health Organization (WHO) has in 2013 changed the diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) to acknowledge the putative importance of mildly elevated fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels on pregnancy outcomes. We aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of GDM using the previous WHO 1999 versus WHO 2013 criteria in North India.

• Author: Geeti Arora; Richa G Thaman; Rashmi Prasad; Peter Almgren; Charlotte Brøns; Leif Groop; Allan Vaag
• Department/s: Translational Muscle Research; EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 257-267
• Publication/Series: European Journal of Endocrinology
• Volume: 173
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26012589?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EJE-14-0428
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Society of the European Journal of Endocrinology
• Topic: Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Status: Published
• Research group: Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1479-683X