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Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health

Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health
Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health
Gestational diabetes, the most common medical disorder in pregnancy, is defined as glucose intolerance resulting in hyperglycaemia that begins or is first diagnosed in pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is associated with increased pregnancy complications and long-term metabolic risks for the woman and the offspring. However, the current diagnostic and management strategies recommended by national and international guidelines are mainly focused on short-term risks during pregnancy and delivery, except the Carpenter-Coustan criteria, which were based on the risk of future incidence of type 2 diabetes post-gestational diabetes. In this Personal View, first, we summarise the evidence for long-term risk in women with gestational diabetes and their offspring. Second, we suggest that a shift is needed in the thinking about gestational diabetes; moving from the perception of a short-term condition that confers increased risks of large babies to a potentially modifiable long-term condition that contributes to the growing burden of childhood obesity and cardiometabolic disorders in women and the future generation. Third, we propose how the current clinical practice might be improved. Finally, we outline and justify priorities for future research.
2213-8587
793-800
Saravanan, P.
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Holt, Richard
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Diabetes in Pregnancy Working Group of the Maternal Medicine Clinical Study Group
Saravanan, P.
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Holt, Richard
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Saravanan, P. , Diabetes in Pregnancy Working Group of the Maternal Medicine Clinical Study Group (2020) Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 8 (9), 793-800. (doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30161-3).

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Gestational diabetes, the most common medical disorder in pregnancy, is defined as glucose intolerance resulting in hyperglycaemia that begins or is first diagnosed in pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is associated with increased pregnancy complications and long-term metabolic risks for the woman and the offspring. However, the current diagnostic and management strategies recommended by national and international guidelines are mainly focused on short-term risks during pregnancy and delivery, except the Carpenter-Coustan criteria, which were based on the risk of future incidence of type 2 diabetes post-gestational diabetes. In this Personal View, first, we summarise the evidence for long-term risk in women with gestational diabetes and their offspring. Second, we suggest that a shift is needed in the thinking about gestational diabetes; moving from the perception of a short-term condition that confers increased risks of large babies to a potentially modifiable long-term condition that contributes to the growing burden of childhood obesity and cardiometabolic disorders in women and the future generation. Third, we propose how the current clinical practice might be improved. Finally, we outline and justify priorities for future research.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 August 2020
Published date: 1 September 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: PS was in part supported by a project grant from the Medical Research Council, UK (MR/R020981/1). Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

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Local EPrints ID: 440641
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/440641
ISSN: 2213-8587
PURE UUID: 8a652af9-f672-446c-a88d-45907e8e5b4d
ORCID for Richard Holt: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-6744

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Date deposited: 12 May 2020 16:47
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:52

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Author: P. Saravanan
Author: Richard Holt ORCID iD
Corporate Author: Diabetes in Pregnancy Working Group of the Maternal Medicine Clinical Study Group

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