TY - JOUR AU - Lu, Mei-Chun AU - Huang, Song-Shan AU - Yan, Yuan-Horng AU - Wang, Panchalli PY - 2016 DA - 2016/08/17 TI - Use of the National Diabetes Data Group and the Carpenter-Coustan criteria for assessing gestational diabetes mellitus and risk of adverse pregnancy outcome JO - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth SP - 231 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - The influence of different diagnostic thresholds for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on pregnancy outcomes is not fully understood. Degrees of glucose intolerance according to the Carpenter-Coustan (CC) criteria were less severe than the National Diabetes Data Group (NDDG) criteria for GDM. Recent studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes between the NDDG and CC criteria. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate whether pregnant women who met only the CC criteria but not the NDDG criteria and those who met the NDDG criteria had increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to a negative screening group. SN - 1471-2393 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-1030-9 DO - 10.1186/s12884-016-1030-9 ID - Lu2016 ER -