Comment on: Goldberg et al. Circadian Variation in the Response to the Glucose Challenge Test in Pregnancy: Implications for Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1578–1584

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Goldberg et al. (1), in which the authors sought to further characterize the metabolic phenotype of the population of pregnant women with the positive glucose challenge test (GCT) test in relation to the time of day when the test was done. They found that women who had GCT done in the afternoon have a better metabolic function and a lower risk of subsequent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on the consecutive oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). In other …