Two-hour 75-g Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Early in Pregnancy Detects Most Cases of Gestational Diabetes
- Umesh Dashora, MD, MRCP,
- Vandana Dashora, MS and
- Lee Kennedy, MD, FRCP
- Royal Sunderland Hospital, Sunderland, U.K.
We congratulate Schmidt et al. (1) for their excellent work on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), published in Diabetes Care. We would like to make several comments. We believe that testing for GDM early in pregnancy would help to detect cases and has the potential to improve pregnancy outcomes. Also, World Health Organization criteria for the diagnosis of GDM received further endorsement at the Fourth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in 1977 (2); therefore, 2-h 75-g glucose may be a better diagnostic …
