However in the UK, the National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2008) diabetes in pregnancy
guideline identifed the most cost-efective screening
method to be the 2-hour 75 g oral glucose tolerance
test according to the World Health Organization
(WHO) (1999) criteria, applied to a selective screening
population (Box 1). NICE identify this ‘high risk’
population to be women with