In fact, these patients comprised approximately
10% of the patients with GDM who were initially retrieved from the database.
Additionally,when the patientswith GDM were grouped as diabetic
and non-diabetic according to their postpartum 75-g GTT results,
those with IGT were allocated into the non-diabetic group. Therefore,
it might be assumed that the present diagnostic performance indices
have been calculated in a maximally conservative way