Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Sardinia

The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) ranges from 1 to 14% of all pregnancies, depending on the population studied and the diagnostic test and its glycemic cutoff, and it mirrors the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (1). The prevalence of GDM in Italy was reported to be 2.3–10% (2). Sardinia has, with Finland, the highest prevalence in the world of type 1 diabetes and type 1 diabetes–related autoimmune disease (3), while the …