title: Antenatal oral glucose tolerance test in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: fasting plasma glucose is the best predictor of both large for-gestational-age newborns and postpartum glucose tolerance.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Numerous studies have evaluated the predictors of large-for-gestational-age newborns (LGA) as well as abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT) after delivery in women with gestational diabetes mellitus, one at a time. The present study assesses the ability of glucose values on the antenatal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to predict both outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database. Gestational diabetes was diagnosed with a two-step approach. After delivery, reevaluation was performed using 2006 WHO definition of glucose tolerance.
  
  
  METHODS
  1) singleton pregnancies; 2) available information on: offspring weight for age, antenatal and follow-up OGTT and additional potential predictors of LGA and AGT. The study included 1241 women. Data were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression and ROC analyses. Logistic regression models were used to calculate adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios and corresponding 95% CI for 1 mmol/L increase in each glucose value (FPG, 1 h, 2 h, 3 h) of the diagnostic 100-g OGTT, associated to the main outcomes LGA and postpartum AGT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analyzing each glucose value on antenatal OGTT, fasting plasma glucose (FPG) showed the highest OR for both outcomes: LGA (1.537, 95% CI 1.237-1.910) and AGT (2.288, 95% CI 1.869-2.801). On the adjusted analysis the association was attenuated, but FPG continued to be the best predictor for both outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In women with gestational diabetes mellitus, FPG on the diagnostic OGTT was the glycemic value that best predicted both LGA and after delivery AGT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.|Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital Parc Sanitari de Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Monroy
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tundidor
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Inmaculada
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Orellana
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Apolonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Patterson
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Adelantado
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain - rcorcoy@santpau.cat.|Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.|CIBER Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanotechnology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Corcoy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D018149:Glucose Intolerance; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose