Question 29 (part 2) · LEK · Hyperglycemia in pregnancy

Pre-gestational diabetes mellitus class D is:

  1. A. diabetes diagnosed after the age of 20 with a history shorter than 10 years.
  2. B. diabetes diagnosed between the ages 10 and 19 lasting 10-19 years without vascular changes.
  3. C. complicated by nephropathy.
  4. D. complicated by proliferative retinopathy.
  5. E. complicated by ischaemic heart disease.
Hint

In White's classification, classes B and C depend on age at onset and duration; class D adds longer duration or the earliest vascular changes.

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