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Perinatal outcomes associated with the diagnosis of gestational diabetes: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Karina Bastidas1, Ximena C Romero2, Montserrat Uriel2
1Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship. El Bosque University. El Bosque Research Group of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Gynecology, Bogotá, Colombia.
Objective:
To compare perinatal outcomes in pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes using the one-step and the two-step test.
Methods:
Meta-analysis of observational studies pregnancies women with gestational diabetes from January 2014 to February 2019. The outcomes studied were induction of labor and delivery, preterm delivery, fetal macrosomia, neonatal hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, low birth weight, and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Results:
Eight studies were included with a population of 108,609 pregnancies. Statistical differences were obtained for fetal macrosomia RR0.9 (95%CI0.85-0.97; I20%) and neonatal hypoglycemia RR1.1 (95%CI1.01-1.40; I248.5%).
Conclusion:
Neonatal macrosomia appears to be less present when the one-step diagnostic test is used and neonatal hypoglycemia was lower with the two-step test. Register PROSPERO CRD42020215062.
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