Overdiagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnant Woman: A Case Report

The detection and diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) follow different recommendations according to the various groups, in particular for what concerns the endorsement of screening practices and diagnostic threshold recommended by the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG). This paper draws attention to the overdiagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus, when the doctor adheres to the criteria set out in the various international recommendations and also wants to present a case study that explains how easily a poor diagnosis can be made. Here the author describes a recent case report of a 36-year-old pregnant woman with overdiagnosis of gestational diabetes. *Corresponding author: Massimo Bolognesi, Department of Internal General Medicine – General Practitioner, Cesena Italy, Ausl della Romagna – District of Cesena, Via Ungaretti 494 – 47521 Cesena, Italy, Tel: +390547645074; E-mail: [email protected] Received March 31, 2015; Accepted April 16, 2015; Published April 25, 2015 Citation: Bolognesi M (2015) Overdiagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnant Woman: A Case Report. J Women’s Health Care 4: 234. doi:10.4172/2167-0420.1000234 Copyright: © 2015 Bolognesi M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.