Endocrine Abstracts

The prevalence of gestational diabetes (GD) continues to increase worldwide, as diabetes mellitus type 2, with the increasing overweight and age of pregnancy. The Caucasian race is the group with a low risk factor in addition to age <25 years and BMI<25. In Italy, the recent immigration of different ethnies with high natality have changed in the last decade the epidemiologic profile of pregnant women. We assessed the prevalence of gestational diabetes in the view of et...