Selective Screening for Gestational Diabetes in Chinese Women
- Xilin Yang, PHD1,
- Bridget Hsu-Hage, PHD1,
- Lichun Yu, MD2 and
- David Simmons, MD1
- 1Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- 2Tianjin Institute for Women’s Health, Tianjin, China
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has recommended selective screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (1). Pregnant women aged <25 years, who have normal body weight, no family history of diabetes, and are not members of an ethnic/racial group with a high prevalence of diabetes, are regarded as a low-risk group for GDM and need not be screened. The effect of selective screening guidelines has been investigated in Caucasian populations using a 100-g 3-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) (2,3). We report here the effect of the selective screening protocol.
A total of 9,471 pregnant women in Tianjin, China, took part in a universal screening program …
