Eight years incidence of diabetes mellitus in gestational diabetic patients

Abstract EN

Objective : To evaluate eight years incidence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM).

Design : A retrospective study.

Setting : Primary Healthcare, Bahrain.

Method : Five hundred sixty-two patients suffering from GDM were identified in 2002 and were traced in 2010 for laboratory diagnosis of diabetes.

Result : Two hundred one (36 %) patients were found to be diabetic.

One hundred one (18%) were normal, 33 (5.8 %) had impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and 227 (40.4 %) were of undetermined status.

There is a statistically significant relation between the development of diabetes and the age at diagnosis of GDM.

Conclusion: The long-term rate development of diabetes after GDM is high.

Age and level of screening test at diagnosis are strong predictive factors.