Gestational diabetes mellitus and fetal death in Mozambique: an incident case-referent study.

Background: Third trimester fetal death is a common problem in Mozambique, occurring in approximately 5% of parturient women.

Objective: To elucidate the magnitude of the gestational diabetes mellitus problem, and to estimate its prevalence in a group of women with unexplained late fetal deaths and in women with live fetuses (referents).

Methods: An incident case-referent study of 109 pregnant Mozambican women with fetal deaths and 110 women delivering liveborns, regarding fasting B-glucose, oral glucose tolerance test and glycosylated hemoglobin.