GP slams new gestational diabetes criteria
19th March 2014
The push to label thousands more women with gestational diabetes is "a striking example of overdiagnosis" that is bereft of supporting evidence, a GP leader has claimed.
Writing in the BMJ, Dr Evan Ackermann argues that expanding the diagnostic criteria will ramp up costs and increase intervention rates, "without clear evidence of clinically important benefit".
The changes, which were
