Towards national comprehensive gestational diabetes screening - consequences for neonatal outcome and care.

Introduction: The change from risk-factor-based to nearly comprehensive screening of gestational diabetes (GDM) identifies more but milder cases of the disease. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of this screening policy change on neonatal outcomes and care.

Material And Methods: A population-based register study in Finland.

The changing face of gestational diabetes: the effect of the shift from risk factor-based to comprehensive screening.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the change in the gestational diabetes (GDM) screening policy from risk-factor based to comprehensive screening on the prevalence and type of GDM and characteristics of GDM pregnancies.

Design: Population-based register study in Finland. Subjects were GDM women who gave birth before (2006, n=5185) and after (2010, n=6683) the policy change.