What is it about?
Use of reagent-strip urinalysis to detect glycosuria remains a routine antenatal care screening practice for gestational diabetes particularly in low- and middle-income settings.
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Why is it important?
Variability in glomerular glucose reabsorption during pregnancy makes the diagnostic accuracy of this test questionable.
Perspectives
Glycosuria was found to be insensitive, diagnostically poor and missing majority of cases. Fasting blood glucose was most sensitive while one-hour OGTT was most specific. Our findings reaffirm the rising prevalence of GDM also at primary healthcare levels and highlights the need to monitor pregnant women with the slightest glycosuria even trace results. Fasting blood glucose should be integrated into all GDM screening/diagnostic procedures.
Dr Faith Agbozo
University of Health and Allied Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Accuracy of glycosuria, random blood glucose and risk factors as selective screening tools for gestational diabetes mellitus in comparison with universal diagnosing, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, June 2018, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2017-000493.
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