Diabetes screening in pregnancy is offered to women who are at risk between 24 and 28 weeks.
However new research has found that screening at this stage of pregnancy may be ‘too late’ as the baby would have already grown excessively between 20 and 28 weeks, before the diagnosis following screening.
Gestational diabetes increases the likelihood that the child will develop obesity and diabetes, therefore this research highlights important points regarding timing of screening diabetes in pregnancy.
