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Babies born to individuals with GDM are more likely to be born prematurely, suffer fetal injury, and are at increased risk for a variety of long-term medical complications.
When GDM is well-managed, the risks to the parent and child are closer to those of pregnant individuals without diabetes. Additionally, people of Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and African American descent may be at greater risk of developing GDM.
After delivery, and during the postpartum period following a pregnancy with GDM, blood sugar levels return to normal in the weeks after delivery.
There is a high chance that a person who had gestational diabetes with their previous pregnancy will also have GDM with their next pregnancy.
It is important a person with GDM see their health care provider early in the postpartum period and have their blood sugar tested annually by their health care provider. The goal of treatment for all types of diabetes is to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible.
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A total of Only This illustrates a missed opportunity for early intervention in diabetes surveillance and prevention and demonstrates the need to develop a multidisciplinary approach for postpartum follow-up.
Gestational diabetes GD , defined as hyperglycemia with onset in pregnancy, is a common pregnancy complication. It affects up to 1 in 10 US pregnancies, 1 and that prevalence is continuing to rise.
Transition from obstetrics to primary care for prevention and management is critical to blunting these effects. National data on GD primary care follow-up are sparse and limited to those with continuous private insurance enrollment of over 4 years, 11 but show low rates of blood glucose follow-up.
The American Diabetes Association ADA and ACOG both recommend the following postpartum interventions for patients with a history of GD: 1 oral glucose tolerance testing OGTT at 4 to 12 weeks post partum, 2 discussion of lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions to prevent diabetes development, and 3 ongoing glucose monitoring every 1 to 3 years if not diagnosed with diabetes.
As early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can decrease long-term diabetes-related morbidity and mortality, 19 it is critical to longitudinally follow postpartum individuals with GD to ensure prompt detection of diabetes and prediabetes.
To gather more data regarding primary care follow-up trends in postpartum GD care, we conducted a retrospective cohort study focusing on primary care follow-up and diabetes-related care. This analysis used a deidentified data set and was deemed exempt for human subject research review by the Office of Responsible Research Practices at the Ohio State University.
The data were extracted in September This study conforms to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology STROBE reporting guidelines.
Data on women aged 15 to 51 years old who gave birth between and were identified from MarketScan IBM Watson Health , a large administrative database for health care research that contains deidentified data from patients with commercial health insurance or Medicare supplemental health insurance, including inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims.
Women up to age 51 years, the average age of menopause in the US, 23 were included given the increase in pregnancy rates in women in their 40s 24 and the increased risk of GD in women of advanced maternal age. Using the date of the earliest claim following delivery, patients included in the study had continuous enrollment from days before to days after the delivery date to ensure adequate capture of follow-up.
Those with a diagnosis of GD postdelivery were excluded to ensure that hyperglycemia was documented in pregnancy and to avoid incorrect classification of those with ongoing glucose intolerance post partum.
Encounters indicating a death in-hospital, missing discharge status, or unknown region were excluded. In instances where a patient had more than 1 record with a delivery code during the study period, only the first entry was analyzed.
The primary outcome examined were rates of primary care follow-up, which was identified based on postdelivery outpatient encounters that were billed with evaluation and management or preventive care codes eTable 1 in Supplement 1.
Secondary outcomes included follow-up with an indication of diabetes-related care by either blood glucose testing procedure codes or a diagnosis code related to diabetes or prediabetes or diabetes-related care encounters among those who had a primary care follow-up.
Of note, follow-up not identified as primary care or indicating an infant attached were excluded. To determine the proportion of patients with GD receiving guideline-concordant care of blood glucose testing within 12 weeks post partum, 14 blood glucose testing by procedure codes in the first 12 weeks was considered a secondary outcome.
Diabetes diagnosis was the primary independent variable. Patients were classified in 1 of 3 categories based on their diagnosis status no diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or GD using ICD-9 or ICD codes. Other variables included in the study were age, region, and year of delivery for descriptive purposes.
Racial or socioeconomic disparities beyond rurality were not included as variables given the deidentified nature of the database. Bivariate association between each outcome and the independent variables was assessed using either a χ 2 test, 2-sample t test, or a Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
A confidence interval was reported for each point estimate. A multivariable log-binomial regression model was used to assess the relative risk RR of having a primary care follow-up among those who had at least 1 outpatient follow-up relative to diabetes diagnosis status adjusted for age, region, and year of delivery.
The model was repeated for each secondary outcome among women who had 1 or more primary follow-up visits, as well as sensitivity analyses for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm birth.
All estimates derived from multivariable log-binomial regression models utilized a maximum likelihood model estimation and the Kenward-Roger method for computing denominator degrees of freedom.
All statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Analysis System SAS software, version 9. Among patients with no diabetes diagnosis, only Of individuals with GD, Women with GD had a RR for accessing primary care of 0.
Patients in the Northeast region had the highest rates of follow-up Patients living in super rural regions had lower rates of follow-up than the general sample, with Of patients with GD, Of patients with no diabetes diagnosis, The most common type of laboratory values for blood glucose followup were hemoglobin A 1c followed by glucose measurement.
The rate of diabetes-related care increased from Patients living in the Northeast region had the highest rates of glucose testing Patients living in super rural regions had lower rates of diabetes-related care than the overall sample; only Not only were the rates of follow-up in primary care low, but the rates of diabetes-related care for those connected with primary care were low Table 3.
Of patients with GD who accessed primary care, only Of patients with type 2 diabetes who accessed primary care, Patients established in primary care without follow-up blood glucose testing were more likely to have had fewer total follow-up visits Table 3. Among those established in primary care, women with GD had a RR of 0.
Data from the first 12 weeks was examined to determine how closely ADA guidelines for blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks after delivery 14 were followed for those established in primary care.
Overall, In the first 12 weeks post partum, Importantly, 4. Only 2. There was an increase in blood glucose testing over time; Rates of blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks were similar throughout regions.
Patients in super rural areas had lower rates of blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks, with only 9. The cohorts were then analyzed by rates of comorbidities. Of women with GD, those with HDP were more likely to have primary care follow-up OR, 1.
Our data show that individuals with GD throughout the US have low rates of primary care and diabetes-related care. This is one of the first national studies to study primary care follow-up in patients with GD, a key component in the longitudinal follow-up of patients at significantly increased type 2 diabetes risk.
While their rates of follow-up are higher than those with no diabetes diagnosis, they are lower than those with preexisting type 2 diabetes and significantly below the recommendation for universal follow-up.
Overall, patients with GD had a RR of 0. Even once connected with primary care, there were low rates of diabetes-related care for patients with GD. There were also disparities in postpartum diabetes-related follow-up for patients living in super rural areas; to our knowledge, this is the first study to document rural disparities in postpartum diabetes follow-up in the US.
Early follow-up of GD may help to prevent or detect type 2 diabetes earlier, allow opportunities for promotion of improving cardiovascular health, and prevent the significant morbidity related to uncontrolled diabetes.
As GD prevalence increases, it is critical we determine how to increase follow-up rates. Another important and novel element of our data is that, of patients with GD who did receive blood glucose testing, the majority received hemoglobin A 1c in the first 12 weeks post partum, which is not an appropriate test in the immediate postpartum period.
This may lead to patients with continued insulin resistance being missed due to the significant short-term glycemic changes as well as blood turnover associated with delivery. This suggests a lack of understanding on appropriate follow-up of pregnancy complications for primary care physicians, as hemoglobin A 1c is a common diabetes screen in other clinical settings.
These rates may be remedied by raising awareness among primary care practitioners about the appropriate follow-up of GD.
Postpartum follow-up has multiple challenges. It is often unclear which clinician, obstetrics or primary care, should be responsible for ensuring follow-up of pregnancy complications like GD. Primary care physicians may be less familiar with recommendations for surveillance of GD, especially because oral glucose tolerance tests are not widely used in other clinical situations.
However, primary care physicians are uniquely suited to provide longitudinal care for patients outside of pregnancy and are often familiar with chronic care models that can provide systematic support. There are promising care models to help improve GD follow-up. Maternal-infant dyad clinics—with a joint encounter for parent and infant—have been shown to increase GD follow-up and appropriate screening.
eTable 1. eTable 2. Postpaftum of Gestational diabetes and postpartum care and Proportions of Cage Glucose Testing Within the First 12 Weeks Among Primary Care Follow-up. Patterns of Postpartum Primary Care Follow-up and Diabetes-Related Care After Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes. JAMA Netw Open.Gestational diabetes and postpartum care -
No difference was noted between both groups according to age, family income, years of school attendance, parity, gestational age at first visit, smoking status, family history of T2DM, diagnosis of GDM before the third trimester, pregestational BMI, previous GDM and ethnicity data shown in Table 2.
Among the patients who returned with the OGTT, 9 No patient had the diagnosis of T2DM. No difference between these two subgroups was noted regarding age, years of study, parity, gestational age at first visit, smoking, family history of T2DM, diagnosis of GDM before the third trimester, pregestational BMI, previous GDM, ethnicity and insulin use.
The family income was higher in the group with abnormal OGTTs Table 3. The independent variable associated with return in post-partum to perform OGTT was the use of insulin during pregnancy with an odds ratio of 6.
The rate of adhesion to postpartum OGTT found in our study was very low In a study by McCloskey only Still in agreement with our results, a study conducted in England found that only The rate of adherence to postpartum screening seems to increase when some type of active search is performed.
In a study conducted with 11, women with GDM, the rate of fasting glycemia FPG or OGTT 6 months postpartum was In this study, containing data collected in different centers, it was not evaluated if the patients received any reminder to perform the OGTT, but it was verified that for women who had postpartum visit the odds of postpartum testing was three times greater than for those who had not [ 23 ].
Similar rates of postpartum screening were found in a cohort described by Hunt et al. After hiring a nurse in order to contact patients during gestation and postpartum for a minimum of three times and providing an OGTT at home, when necessary, this rate increased to In another study, changes in the organization of the health system, initially with the implementation of a program to coordinate the care of patients with GDM by nurses and later with the use of an electronic system to send telephone reminders, the rate of adherence to screening increased from 9.
In addition, in a randomized controlled trial conducted in Canada, patients with GDM were randomly assigned to four different groups: postal reminders for postpartum OGTT were sent to patients only, for physicians only, for both or none of them. It was shown that in all groups in which reminders were used the rate of adherence to screening was significantly higher than when no reminder was used, reaching On the other hand, the same group demonstrated that when trying to implement this measure in practice, although the benefit continued to exist, the effectiveness was not as high as in the controlled study: the adhesion rate in services that did not use the reminders was In our study no type of reminder was sent to patients, which may have contributed to the low adhesion rate.
Even when specific strategies are used to increase adherence to postpartum screening, rates remain unsatisfactory. In studies with questionnaire applications, some of the reasons why patients did not perform the OGTT are lack of time, difficulties with child care, concern only about the risks of GDM to the fetus during pregnancy and less risk awareness to develop diabetes in the future, transport difficulties, among others [ 38 , 39 ].
Failures in the request of the OGTT by the health care team have been also reported [ 38 ]. The factors influencing adherence differ between studies [ 16 , 22 , 23 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. According to a systematic review published by Tovar et al.
An association between obesity and a lower chance of adherence has been reported [ 25 , 26 ], but not confirmed in other studies [ 16 ]. In our study, the only factor that was associated with a greater chance of adherence to the OGTT was the use of insulin during gestation.
It is possible that the need of insulin therapy may lead to greater awareness of the disease. Several other studies have found similar results to ours in relation to insulin use and increased adherence to screening [ 16 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]; in other studies this relationship was neutral [ 22 , 23 ] or inverse [ 25 ].
However, as we have found an odds ratio with a higher amplitude, our results must be evaluated with caution. We did not find a relationship between income, family history of diabetes, years of school attendance, ethnicity, BMI, age or previous history of GDM and the chance of adherence to screening.
Probably, our sample size could be a limitation to the investigation of these factors. A study conducted also in Rio de Janeiro found that only a previous history of GDM was significantly higher in mothers who returned 6 weeks later for performing the OGTT [ 2 ].
In the Diabetes Prevention Program, a follow up of 10 years, showed that changes in lifestyle and the use of metformin were both effective in reducing the risk of developing diabetes in patients with prediabetes and a previous history of GDM.
Compared with placebo, lifestyle changes and metformin reduced the risk of developing diabetes by Thus, postpartum OGTT is important not only to detect and treat diabetes early when it is already present, but also to target more intensive measures of diabetes prevention in the group that already presents an abnormal OGTT.
Screening for postpartum diabetes in patients with GDM is a challenge worldwide. In our study, performed in a tertiary care center, a low adherence to diabetes screening after a gestation complicated by GDM was observed and the only factor implicated with returning for diabetes screening was the use of insulin during pregnancy.
Active patient search measures need to be implemented in the routine care in a systematic way. Studies evaluating the accuracy of simpler screening tests, such as fasting glucose or the achievement of earlier OGTT in the postpartum period, have already been performed, but they need to be expanded in order to evaluate the practical effectiveness of its use in the follow-up of these patients.
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Some pregnant people who may be at greater risk of developing GDM include people who are overweight, had GDM during a previous pregnancy, have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or are physically inactive. Babies born to individuals with GDM are more likely to be born prematurely, suffer fetal injury, and are at increased risk for a variety of long-term medical complications.
When GDM is well-managed, the risks to the parent and child are closer to those of pregnant individuals without diabetes. Additionally, people of Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and African American descent may be at greater risk of developing GDM.
After delivery, and during the postpartum period following a pregnancy with GDM, blood sugar levels return to normal in the weeks after delivery. There is a high chance that a person who had gestational diabetes with their previous pregnancy will also have GDM with their next pregnancy.
It is important a person with GDM see their health care provider early in the postpartum period and have their blood sugar tested annually by their health care provider. Your colostrum early milk is the best food for your baby and will help their blood glucose to stay at a safe level.
You can ask your midwife or nurse to help you to get your baby latched on or positioned correctly to your breast.
Continue to breastfeed frequently at least every 2 to 3 hours, maybe 8 to 12 times in 24 hours. In the meantime your baby is getting the vital colostrum.
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Encounters indicating a death in-hospital, missing discharge status, or unknown region were excluded. In instances where a patient had more than 1 record with a delivery code during the study period, only the first entry was analyzed.
The primary outcome examined were rates of primary care follow-up, which was identified based on postdelivery outpatient encounters that were billed with evaluation and management or preventive care codes eTable 1 in Supplement 1.
Secondary outcomes included follow-up with an indication of diabetes-related care by either blood glucose testing procedure codes or a diagnosis code related to diabetes or prediabetes or diabetes-related care encounters among those who had a primary care follow-up. Of note, follow-up not identified as primary care or indicating an infant attached were excluded.
To determine the proportion of patients with GD receiving guideline-concordant care of blood glucose testing within 12 weeks post partum, 14 blood glucose testing by procedure codes in the first 12 weeks was considered a secondary outcome.
Diabetes diagnosis was the primary independent variable. Patients were classified in 1 of 3 categories based on their diagnosis status no diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or GD using ICD-9 or ICD codes.
Other variables included in the study were age, region, and year of delivery for descriptive purposes. Racial or socioeconomic disparities beyond rurality were not included as variables given the deidentified nature of the database.
Bivariate association between each outcome and the independent variables was assessed using either a χ 2 test, 2-sample t test, or a Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
A confidence interval was reported for each point estimate. A multivariable log-binomial regression model was used to assess the relative risk RR of having a primary care follow-up among those who had at least 1 outpatient follow-up relative to diabetes diagnosis status adjusted for age, region, and year of delivery.
The model was repeated for each secondary outcome among women who had 1 or more primary follow-up visits, as well as sensitivity analyses for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm birth. All estimates derived from multivariable log-binomial regression models utilized a maximum likelihood model estimation and the Kenward-Roger method for computing denominator degrees of freedom.
All statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Analysis System SAS software, version 9. Among patients with no diabetes diagnosis, only Of individuals with GD, Women with GD had a RR for accessing primary care of 0.
Patients in the Northeast region had the highest rates of follow-up Patients living in super rural regions had lower rates of follow-up than the general sample, with Of patients with GD, Of patients with no diabetes diagnosis, The most common type of laboratory values for blood glucose followup were hemoglobin A 1c followed by glucose measurement.
The rate of diabetes-related care increased from Patients living in the Northeast region had the highest rates of glucose testing Patients living in super rural regions had lower rates of diabetes-related care than the overall sample; only Not only were the rates of follow-up in primary care low, but the rates of diabetes-related care for those connected with primary care were low Table 3.
Of patients with GD who accessed primary care, only Of patients with type 2 diabetes who accessed primary care, Patients established in primary care without follow-up blood glucose testing were more likely to have had fewer total follow-up visits Table 3.
Among those established in primary care, women with GD had a RR of 0. Data from the first 12 weeks was examined to determine how closely ADA guidelines for blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks after delivery 14 were followed for those established in primary care.
Overall, In the first 12 weeks post partum, Importantly, 4. Only 2. There was an increase in blood glucose testing over time; Rates of blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks were similar throughout regions.
Patients in super rural areas had lower rates of blood glucose testing in the first 12 weeks, with only 9. The cohorts were then analyzed by rates of comorbidities. Of women with GD, those with HDP were more likely to have primary care follow-up OR, 1.
Our data show that individuals with GD throughout the US have low rates of primary care and diabetes-related care. This is one of the first national studies to study primary care follow-up in patients with GD, a key component in the longitudinal follow-up of patients at significantly increased type 2 diabetes risk.
While their rates of follow-up are higher than those with no diabetes diagnosis, they are lower than those with preexisting type 2 diabetes and significantly below the recommendation for universal follow-up. Overall, patients with GD had a RR of 0.
Even once connected with primary care, there were low rates of diabetes-related care for patients with GD. There were also disparities in postpartum diabetes-related follow-up for patients living in super rural areas; to our knowledge, this is the first study to document rural disparities in postpartum diabetes follow-up in the US.
Early follow-up of GD may help to prevent or detect type 2 diabetes earlier, allow opportunities for promotion of improving cardiovascular health, and prevent the significant morbidity related to uncontrolled diabetes.
As GD prevalence increases, it is critical we determine how to increase follow-up rates. Another important and novel element of our data is that, of patients with GD who did receive blood glucose testing, the majority received hemoglobin A 1c in the first 12 weeks post partum, which is not an appropriate test in the immediate postpartum period.
This may lead to patients with continued insulin resistance being missed due to the significant short-term glycemic changes as well as blood turnover associated with delivery. This suggests a lack of understanding on appropriate follow-up of pregnancy complications for primary care physicians, as hemoglobin A 1c is a common diabetes screen in other clinical settings.
These rates may be remedied by raising awareness among primary care practitioners about the appropriate follow-up of GD. Postpartum follow-up has multiple challenges. It is often unclear which clinician, obstetrics or primary care, should be responsible for ensuring follow-up of pregnancy complications like GD.
Primary care physicians may be less familiar with recommendations for surveillance of GD, especially because oral glucose tolerance tests are not widely used in other clinical situations.
However, primary care physicians are uniquely suited to provide longitudinal care for patients outside of pregnancy and are often familiar with chronic care models that can provide systematic support.
There are promising care models to help improve GD follow-up. Maternal-infant dyad clinics—with a joint encounter for parent and infant—have been shown to increase GD follow-up and appropriate screening. Patient contact with a health educator, via phone or mail, has also been shown to increase follow-up blood glucose testing.
There were several limitations to this study. As this is based on insurance claims of patients with continuous private insurance enrollment, the follow-up rates of patients covered by public insurance eg, Medicaid or who are uninsured are not known.
Our data would also not capture any blood glucose testing or follow-up that was not billed for or coded incorrectly. This study cannot comment on racial or socioeconomic disparities beyond rurality given the deidentified nature of the database, limiting the understanding of other inequities in follow-up rates.
Further studies are needed to characterize follow-up in these patient populations. Previous data have shown worsened glycemic control among pregnant people with higher social vulnerability, 30 raising concern for potential inequity. This cohort study demonstrated concerningly low rates of postpartum engagement in what is, to our knowledge, the largest study of primary care follow-up in GD to date.
: Gestational diabetes and postpartum care| Diabetes after Pregnancy Recommendations | WPSI | Accessed September 8, Relationship of neonatal body composition to maternal glucose control in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. Briggs GG, Ambrose PJ, Nageotte MP, Padilla G, Wan S: Excretion of metformin into breast milk and the effect on nursing infants. In a randomized trial of patients with GDM on nutritional therapy who demonstrated glucose levels in the target range after one week of four times daily glucose testing, those assigned to every other day testing had similar birth weights and frequency of macrosomia as those who continued to test four times daily [ 40 ]. This is one of the first national studies to study primary care follow-up in patients with GD, a key component in the longitudinal follow-up of patients at significantly increased type 2 diabetes risk. |
| EARLY POSTPARTUM CARE— | Minus Related Pages. Jovanovic-Peterson L, Peterson CM. Schwartz RA, Rosenn B, Aleksa K, Koren G. These articles are written at the 10th to 12th grade reading level and are best for patients who want in-depth information and are comfortable with some medical jargon. After hiring a nurse in order to contact patients during gestation and postpartum for a minimum of three times and providing an OGTT at home, when necessary, this rate increased to |
| Alternate Text Missing | Shaw JE, Zimmet PZ, Hodge AM, de Courten M, Dowse GK, Chitson P, Toumilehto J, Alberti KG: Impaired fasting glucose: how low should it go? Patients with GDM should receive medical nutritional counseling by a registered dietitian when possible upon diagnosis and be placed on an appropriate diet. Franz MJ, Bantle JP, Beebe CA, et al. McNeely MJ, Boyko EJ, Leonetti DL, Kahn SE, Fujimoto WY: Comparison of a clinical model, the oral glucose tolerance test, and fasting glucose for prediction of type 2 diabetes risk in Japanese Americans. JAMA Pediatr ; |
| Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy | Alberti KGMM, Zimmet PZ, the WHO Consultation: Definition, diagnosis, and classification of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Lawrence JM, Contreras R, Chen W, Sacks DA. Diabetes Care ; 31 Suppl 1:S Please, upgrade your browser to improve your experience with HSE. Ferrara A, Peng T, Kim C. Mauricio D, Corcoy R, Codina M, Morales J, Balsells M, de Leiva A: Islet cell antibodies and beta-cell function in gestational diabetic women: comparison to first-degree relatives of type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic subjects. If you have depression before, during, or after pregnancy, talk to your doctor about your symptoms. |
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