Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: In Edmonton, universal screening of all pregnancies is performed using a 50 g gestational diabetes screen (GDS). Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) Practice Guidelines recommend a 75 g 2 h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) if the GDS glucose result is between 7.8 and 10.2 mmol/l. This study is designed to assess the frequency of OGTT requests in response to a positive GDS and the prevalence of normal OGTT in this population.Methods: All GDS ...