Should Glycemic Targets for Gestational Diabetes Be Changed?

Should Glycemic Targets for Gestational Diabetes Be Changed?

Use of tighter glycemic targets for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) reduced the risk for a serious health outcome for the infant, according to a trial conducted in New Zealand. These serious health outcomes included death, birth trauma, and shoulder dystocia. Infants’ length of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit also was shorter. But the new targets did not reduce the infant’s risk of being large for its gestational age.