Gestational Diabetes

Research on gestational diabetes published by Y.Z. Chen et al

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 6th, 2009

According to recent research published in the journal Population Health Management, "The objective of this study was to estimate the national medical costs associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in 2007. We analyzed the National Hospital Discharge Survey to estimate the national prevalence of GDM."

"Using Poisson regression analysis with medical claims for about 27,000 newborns and their mothers, we estimated rate ratios that reflect the increase in use of health care services associated with GDM. Combining GDM prevalence rates with these rate ratios, we calculated etiological fractions that reflect the proportion of national health care resource use...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-08-06)

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