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Anam Shakil Rai

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Identifying women with gestational diabetes based on maternal characteristics: an analysis of four Norwegian prospective studies

2021

Abstract Background There is still no worldwide agreement on the best diagnostic thresholds to define gestational diabetes (GDM) or the optimal approach for identifying women with GDM. Should all pregnant women perform an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) or can easily available maternal characteristics, such as age, BMI and ethnicity, indicate which women to test? The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of GDM by three diagnostic criteria and the predictive accuracy of commonly used risk factors. Methods We merged data from four Norwegian cohorts (2002–2013), encompassing 2981 women with complete results from a universally offered OGTT. Prevalences were estimated based on the f…

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Are general practitioners characteristics associated with the quality of type 2 diabetes care in general practice? Results from the Norwegian ROSA4 s…

2018

Abstract Objective: To explore the associations between general practitioners (GPs) characteristics such as gender, specialist status, country of birth and country of graduation and the quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting and subjects: The 277 GPs provided care for 10082 patients with T2DM in Norway in 2014. The GPs characteristics were self-reported: 55% were male, 68% were specialists in General Practice, 82% born in Norway and 87% had graduated in Western Europe. Of patients, 81% were born in Norway and 8% in South Asia. Data regarding diabetes care were obtained from electronic medical records and manually verified. Main outc…

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Additional file 1 of Identifying women with gestational diabetes based on maternal characteristics: an analysis of four Norwegian prospective studies

2021

Additional file 1. : Supporting information Table S1. Characteristics of study participants according to their glucose tolerance status, with three criteria (1999WHO, 2013WHO and 2017Norwegian criteria). Supporting information Table S2. Associations between maternal risk factors and gestational diabetes mellitus in univariate analysis and multivariate analysis, using the 1999WHO criteria.

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