Management of Pregnant Women after Bariatric Surgery

Table 2

Suggestions for diagnosis of gestational diabetes and overt diabetes in early pregnancy (<20 weeks of gestation) following metabolic surgery using capillary blood glucose monitoring (adapted from [40, 41]).

Fasting	≥95 mg/dl
1 h postprandially	In patients after gastric bypass/bariatric surgery of unknown significance (see text)
2 h postprandially	≥120 mg/dl
Overt diabetes diagnosis
Fasting	≥126 mg/dl
HbA1c	≥6.5%
Random	In patients after gastric bypass/bariatric surgery of unknown significance (see text)

HbA1c values are applicable after bariatric surgery. Hypoglycaemia can also occur more than two hours after meal intake.