NCT01869608

Postpartum Screening of Type 2 Diabetes

Can we Screen Type 2 Diabetes on the 2nd Day After Delivery in Women Who Had Gestational Diabetes Mellitus?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Sherbrooke · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) complicates 5 to 30 % of pregnancies. GDM is defined as hyperglycemia with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Because it is a forerunner of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), professional associations recommend T2DM postpartum screening (T2DM-pPS) at 6 weeks/6 months post delivery, using a 75g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). However, less than a quarter of these women are screened. This recommendation has failed for multiple reasons; the most important being that busy new mothers must deal with the major inconveniences of returning to a sampling center for a 2h testing session, bringing baby along or paying for a sitter, transportation, parking… A mother-friendly solution is direly needed. The investigators hypothesize that, in these women, results of an OGTT performed after delivery on the last day of their hospital stay (OGTT-1) will predict results of the recommended OGTT (OGTT-2) at 6 weeks/6 months postpartum. The main aim of our project is to determine the optimal cut-off value for the 2h glucose result during OGTT-1 in order to predict abnormal glucose tolerance status at OGTT-2 (the gold standard), in the same woman.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	oral glucose tolerance test 2 days post-partum	Screening for type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes mellitus.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2013-06-05
• Last updated: 2019-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada