“Abnormal” Fasting Plasma Glucose During Pregnancy
- Veerasamy Seshiah, MD,
- Vijayam Balaji, MD,
- Arunachalam Panneerselvam, MD and
- Madhuri S. Balaji, MB
- From the Diabetes In Pregnancy—Awareness and Prevention (DIPAP) Project, Dr V Seshiah Diabetes Care and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Corresponding author: Veerasamy Seshiah, vseshiah{at}gmail.com
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy (1) and is a major medical complication of pregnancy. Untreated, the would-be mother and yet-to-be-born child are likely to suffer morbidity and mortality.
The World Health Organization criterion for diagnosis of GDM is 2-h plasma glucose (PG) ≥140 mg/dl on a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (2). However, birth weight of the child and cumulative risk of type 2 diabetes both increase with any rise in 2-h PG ≥120 mg/dl (3). Further, data regarding the correlation between maternal fasting PG (FPG) levels and macrosomia are scant. Hence, we analyzed the relationship between the birth weight of neonates …
