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Diet plus insulin compared to diet alone in the treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review
Provedor de dados: 56
Autores: Giuffrida,F.M.A.; Castro,A.A.; Atallah,A.N.; Dib,S.A.
Fetuses of mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus are at increased risk to develop perinatal complications mainly due to macrosomia. However, in view of the marked heterogeneity of this disease, it seems difficult to set guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. This complicates the choice of assigning patients either to diet or to insulin therapy. Also of concern is how much benefit could be expected from insulin therapy in preventing fetal complications in these patients. In a systematic review of the literature assessing the efficacy of insulin in preventing macrosomia in fetuses of mothers with gestational diabetes, we found six randomized controlled trials comparing diet alone to diet plus insulin. The studies included a total of 1281 patients (644...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Palavras-chave: Diabetes; Gestational; Diet therapy; Fetal macrosomia; Insulin; Meta-analysis.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003001000004