Oral Presentation Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

A review of the ‘National Consensus Meeting on the definition of Gestational Diabetes’ hosted by Therapeutic Guidelines (#9)

Sarah Price 1
  1. University of Melbourne, Heidelberg Heights, VIC, Australia

ADIPS was invited by Therapeutic Guidelines to participate in the National Consensus Meeting on the definition of Gestational Diabetes. Other societies and organisations participating in this meeting included Australian Diabetes Society (ADS), Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), Australian College of Midwives (ACM), Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA), Maternity Choices, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) and Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ).

The meeting was held on Monday 1st July 2019. The issues discussed included:

  1. Options for a tiered approach to gestational diabetes
  2. Options for changing diagnostic thresholds
  3. Options for re-testing borderline abnormal results
  4. Options for a change in gestational diabetes nomenclature

At the 2018 ADIPS ASM, the overwhelming majority of ADIPS members voted for no change to the current IADPSG/ADIPS criteria for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes. This view was communicated to the Therapeutic Guidelines committee and was supported by the majority of other organisations involved in the meeting.

There was broad consensus that health care providers can continue to improve the way they communicate with pregnant women who are being tested for gestational diabetes and/or have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Further education may assist health care providers to more effectively work with women to achieve the best possible health outcomes.