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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Pregnancy Health: Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Gestational Diabetes

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: December 2017

Workgroups: Diabetes Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends lifestyle interventions delivered in the first 2 trimesters of pregnancy to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. These interventions actively encourage women to eat a healthy diet and get physical activity. CPSTF found strong evidence of effectiveness for interventions providing supervised exercise classes, either alone or in combination with other components. CPSTF found sufficient evidence of effectiveness for interventions that provide education and counseling for diet or physical activity, diet activities (e.g., meal plan, food diary, individualized support), or a combination of these components. 

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the number of diabetes cases diagnosed yearly — D‑01
LHI label
Baseline only
Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women with no prior births — MICH‑06
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2017). Pregnancy health: lifestyle interventions to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/pregnancy-health-lifestyle-interventions-reduce-risk-gestational-diabetes