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Currently, around the world, there are a multitude of glucose challenges and threshold criteria for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes. Some, such as the O'Sullivan criteria, were based upon the statistical assessment of two standard deviations above the mean in a population of pregnant women, and were validated by their predictive values for subsequent diabetes in the mother. Others, such as the World Health Organization criteria, were based on values for non-pregnant adults. None were based upon their ability to identify pregnancies at increased risk for potentially preventable adverse perinatal outcomes. In 1991, the Third International Workshop Conference on Gestational Diabetes met in Chicago. Noting the above state of confusion and the Resultant inability to compare providences among different populations, the group recommended that the 75 gram challenge be universally employed. In 1998, the 4 th IWC on GDM concluded that "...there remains a compelling need to develop diagnostic criteria...based on the specific relationships between hyperglycemia and the risk of adverse outcome." The HAPO (Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome) Study was designed to determine what le
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- Author
- lietze
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)