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Screening Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on the 2nd Day After Delivery in Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Diabetes, Gestational
Interventions
Procedure: Type 2 diabetes diagnosis test
Registration Number
NCT02290860
Lead Sponsor
Université de Sherbrooke
Brief Summary

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as a hyperglycemia with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. GDM complicates 5 to 25% of pregnancies, depending on the diagnostic criteria used and the population being studied.

GDM is an important red flag: up to 70% women with GDM will develop type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) during their lifetime. Accordingly, professional associations recommend T2DM postpartum screening (T2DM-pP-S), 6-to-24 weeks after delivery. A 75g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) should be performed for diagnosis (gold standard). Nevertheless, this T2DM-pP-S recommendation has failed worldwide for the same reasons: the presently impractical pattern of the testing. A solution is direly needed.

Our overall goal is to improve detection of pre-diabetes and diabetes and more specifically, to facilitate the recommended T2DM-pP-S in women diagnosed with GDM.

We hypothesize that, in GDM women, results of an OGTT performed after delivery, before hospital discharge (OGTT-1) predict results of the recommended OGTT at 6-to-12 weeks postpartum (OGTT-2). Our aims are:

1. To validate in Caucasian women the predictive threshold value of the 2hr-glucose of OGTT-1 established by our Stage-1 study.

2. To determine, in a multiethnic non-Caucasian cohort, the threshold value for the 2hr-glucose of OGTT-1 that is predictive of abnormal glucose tolerance at OGTT-2.

3. To define the OGTT time preference of women (before hospital discharge vs. 6-to-12 weeks postpartum).

If our results are in line with our Stage-1 data, most redundant 6-to-24 weeks postpartum OGTT will be avoided. Medical practice will change.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
228
Inclusion Criteria
  • Women aged between 18 and 45 years;
  • Having a positive diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (IADPSG or CDA criteria or patient followed for GDM);
  • Treated with diet, insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents;
  • Have given birth to a child at term (gestational age ≥ 37 weeks);
  • Have signed the consent form.
Exclusion Criteria
  • History of glucose intolerance or diabetes before the pregnancy;

  • Have presented another obstetrical pathology during the pregnancy;

    • Severe gestational high blood pressure with proteinuria;
    • Delayed intrauterine development syndrome;
    • Pregnancy with more than a foetus;
    • Drug addiction;
    • Had complications during the delivery such as:
  • Moderate to severe postpartum bleeding;

  • Surgery in postpartum (curettage, hysterectomy, etc.).

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
InterventionType 2 diabetes diagnosis testType 2 diabetes diagnosis test.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
abnormal glucose tolerance8 weeks after delivery
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre de recherche clinique du CHUS

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Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

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