Postnatal fasting plasma glucose test

6 to 13 weeks after the birth

tests per year, UK, once, 6 to 13 weeks after the birth

“offer a fasting plasma glucose test 6 to 13 weeks after the birth to exclude diabetes”

NICE NG3, Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period, section 1.6 Postnatal care, 2015-02

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For women whose glucose returned to normal after the birth; an HbA1c test is used after 13 weeks if a fasting test is not possible.

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