Gestational diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Five years have passed since the criteria of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were revised. Under these new criteria, prevalence of GDM has increased from 2-3% to 8-10%. This increase raises many arguments especially about cost effectiveness of managing newly diagnosed mild GDM showing only one abnormal value in 75 gOGTT. No evidence is yet to be found. But in our everyday experience, we find out few poor perinatal outcome with mild GDM mothers who are treated only with diet regimen to control their body weight. Considering later development to type 2 diabetes with these mild GDM mothers, they show no obvious difference from non GDM mothers in the retrospective study.