Society guideline links: Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Diabetes mellitus in adults" and "Society guideline links: Blood glucose monitoring".)

International

●Endocrine Society (ES): Clinical practice guideline for the management of individuals with diabetes at high risk for hypoglycemia (2022)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Classification of diabetes mellitus (2019)

●International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO): Initiative on gestational diabetes mellitus – A pragmatic guide for diagnosis, management, and care (2015)

●American Diabetes Association (ADA) and ES: Consensus statement on hypoglycemia and diabetes (2013)

●ES: Clinical practice guideline on diabetes and pregnancy (2013)

●WHO: Diagnostic criteria and classification of hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy (2013)

●International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG): The hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcome (HAPO) study – Paving the way for new diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus (2010)

●International Diabetes Federation (IDF): Global guideline for pregnancy and diabetes (2009)

●WHO: Definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and intermediate hyperglycaemia (2006)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on diabetes in pregnancy (2019)

●SOGC: Guideline on pregnancy and maternal obesity part 1 – Pre-conception and prenatal care (2019)

●SOGC: Guideline on pregnancy and maternal obesity part 2 – Team planning for delivery and postpartum care (2019)

●Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines on diabetes and pregnancy (2018)

●CDA: Clinical practice guidelines on hyperglycemic emergencies in adults (2018)

United States

●American Diabetes Association (ADA): Standards of medical care in diabetes (2022)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on gestational diabetes mellitus – Screening (2021)

●Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND): Gestational diabetes evidence-based nutrition practice guideline (2018)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin on gestational diabetes mellitus (2018)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on pregestational diabetes mellitus (2018)

●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Statement on the pharmacological treatment of gestational diabetes (2018)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't perform antenatal testing on women with the diagnosis of gestational diabetes who are well controlled by diet alone and without other indications for testing (2016)

●American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)/American College of Endocrinology (ACE): Clinical practice guidelines for developing a diabetes mellitus comprehensive care plan (2015)

●ADA and Endocrine Society (ES): Consensus statement on hypoglycemia and diabetes (2013)

●ADA: Guidelines and recommendations for laboratory analysis in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus (2011)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on antenatal care (2021)

●NICE: Guideline on diabetes in pregnancy – Management from preconception to the postnatal period (2015, updated 2020)

●Diabetes UK: Position statements for managing hyperglycaemia during antenatal steroid administration, labour and birth in pregnant women with diabetes (2018)

●NICE: Quality standard for antenatal care (2012, updated 2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on diabetes in pregnancy (2016)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Scientific impact paper on diagnosis and treatment of gestational diabetes (2011)

Australia-New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (2017)

●Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS): Consensus guidelines for the testing and diagnosis of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Australia and New Zealand (1991, modified 2014)

●ADIPS: Consensus guidelines for the testing and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia (2013)

●Australian Diabetes Society (ADS): Position statement for individualization of HbA1c targets for adults with diabetes mellitus (2009)

●ADIPS: Consensus guidelines for the management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in relation to pregnancy (2005)

South Asia

●South Asian Federation of Endocrine Societies (SAFES): Recommendations and action plan on gestational diabetes mellitus (2018)