title: Influence of pregnancy on the 75-g OGTT. A prospective multicenter study. The Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
abstract: This study reports the responses to a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in 1009 pregnant women from throughout Europe. We reached the following conclusions. 1) A pregnant woman tends to have blood glucose concentrations that are elevated for a longer period of time after an oral glucose load. Therefore, approximately 10% of women will reach or exceed 8 mM glucose at 2 h, but it is unlikely that 10% of European women have disordered carbohydrate metabolism. 2) The fasting and 1-h values should be included in any analysis of the response of the patient. By doing this, many fewer women will have responses regarded as abnormal; in this series, it reduced the 79 women with a 2-h value greater than 8 mM to 15 who were considered to have carbohydrate intolerance (2 with diabetes, 13 with impaired glucose tolerance [IGT]). 3) By increasing the 2-h cutoff value to greater than or equal to 9 mM, the number of women regarded as at risk would be reduced by greater than 50% (from 79 to 32 in this series), but 10 of the 13 women with two abnormal values would still have been detected, as would the 2 diabetic women. 4) From the obstetric viewpoint, mothers who screen positive do not have bigger babies, they deliver close to term, and they do not have particular stigmas such as a family history of diabetes or an increased tendency to smoke or to have an adverse obstetric outcome. However, they do tend to be older and heavier.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: MRC Human Reproductive Group, Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000097:blood*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011446:Prospective Studies
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose