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A comparative study of prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus between urban and rural women in kut city | ||
| Journal Of Wassit For Science & Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-84 | ||
| Author | ||
| Riyadh Hussein Wally | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was carried out to show the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) between urban and rural pregnant women in kut city of Iraq .A total of one thousand pregnant women (divided into 500 from urban areas and 500 rural areas),who had attended various antenatal clinics were screened for GDM by (one hour post 50 gm glucose load) oral glucose challenge test. Women who had an abnormal screening test proceeded to oral glucose tolerance testing by had a 3 hr. 100 gram oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and National diabetes data group criteria applied for diagnosis of GDM. This study showed the overall prevalence of GDM to be 3.2% (3.8% in urban women versus 2.6% in suburban women) | ||
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