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The initiative is part of the doctoral thesis of the gynecology and obstetrics service physician, Álvaro Soto López, a new doctorate from UCAM

Professionals of the Gynecology and Obstetrics service of the General University Hospital Santa Lucia have developed a new predictive model of gestational diabetes, which can be used since the first trimester, and in which epidemiological and analytical variables are combined.

This tool is part of the thesis "Early Screening of Gestational Diabetes" that has been defended this morning by the assistant physician of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the University Hospital Complex of Cartagena, Álvaro Soto López.

This thesis has also been directed by the head of the Obstetrics section of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the Santa Lucía University General Hospital, Juan Pedro Martínez Cendán;

and the doctor of the same service, Juan Martínez Uriarte, within the Doctoral Research Program of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM).

Gestational diabetes is one of the main obstetric pathologies and affects a significant percentage of pregnant women, having important consequences for both the mother and the fetus, in the short and long term.

At present, and within the different maternal fetal units, a population screening is carried out by protocol to pregnant women between weeks 24 and 28 of gestation, which includes an analytical and the O'Sullivan test with the objective of to be able to perform an early intervention in women and to be able to treat it and improve perinatal outcomes.

The objective of this study, therefore, has been to develop a model that could be used before 24 weeks and in which to use multiple reliable variants to predict gestational diabetes mellitus with these first quarter maternal and analytical variables.

To this end, the study has included, retrospectively, the analysis of cases and controls of women who started obstetric control of the first trimester at Santa Lucia Hospital between 2015 and 2016, a total of 4,405 in which the prevalence of diabetes It was 3.47 percent.

Source: UCAM Cartagena