Screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus

Gestational diabetes is a pathology which has shown an increasing frequency during the last years and, if not treated, may still have adverse fetal and maternal outcomes. This condition has therefore to be diagnosed in time and properly treated, although actually the screening and diagnosis procedures of the disease are not univocal. Waiting for the results of the current studies, that will give definite answers to the still open questions, the Study Group on Diabetes and Pregnancy of the SID chooses not to modify the screening and diagnosis criteria of gestational diabetes, which are reported in this paper.