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Outcomes After Unified Versus Standard GDM Diagnosis
Sponsor: Qatar University
Summary
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition that can affect pregnant women during pregnancy and may cause complications for the mother and the baby. Therefore, early and accurate detection is necessary to provide the woman and the baby with better health outcomes. Currently, the most commonly used criteria to detect GDM is the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) criterion. However, there is a suggestion that it results in over-diagnosis of GDM, and newer methods of diagnosis have been proposed. One such proposal is to have more than a binary outcome of assessment of dysglycemia in pregnancy. The investigator group created this criterion known as the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) criterion. This clinical trial compares the IADPSG to the NPRP criteria in pregnant women in Qatar to determine if this newer method mitigates overdiagnosis and more accurately identifies women at risk of complications.
Official title: The UPDATE-GDM Study: OUtcomes After NPRP anD ConventionAl CriTEria for GDM Diagnosis: A Pragmatic Randomised Trial
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - 45 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
2650
Start Date
2025-01-01
Completion Date
2027-06-01
Last Updated
2024-05-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
NPRP criteria
Under the NPRP criterion, the plasma glucose level at each time point (TP1, TP2, and TP3) is multiplied by its weight (Doi et al. 2022), and the sum of these products yields the unified Doi's Weighted Average Glucose (dwAG) value for each woman. The dwAG is then categorized into four groups: a dwAG of 6.8 or lower, \>6.8 to ≤7.5, \>7.5 to ≤8.6, and above 8.6 mmol/L, indicating normal gestational glycemia (NGG), impaired gestational glycemia (IGG), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and high-risk gestational diabetes mellitus (hGDM), respectively (Doi et al. 2022).
IADPSG criteria
The IADPSG criteria define GDM as any one of the three-time points above specific thresholds: the time point prior to glucose ingestion (TP1) is considered abnormal when the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) value is ≥ 5.1 mmol/L, the 1-hour time-point after glucose ingestion (TP2) is considered abnormal when the value is ≥ 10 mmol/L, and the 2-hour time-point after glucose ingestion (TP3) is considered abnormal when the Post-Load Plasma Glucose levels are ≥ 8.5 mmol/L (Metzger et al. 2010). Put simply, meeting any one of these cut-offs results in a GDM diagnosis, regardless of whether the other time points show normal values or not (Metzger et al. 2010).