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Effects of lifestyle education interventions on quality of life and fbg in women with gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Systematic review finds lifestyle education improves fasting blood glucose in women with gestational diabetes, suggesting effective interventions.

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluate the impact of lifestyle education interventions on quality of life and fasting blood glucose in women with gestational diabetes.
Conducted comprehensive searches in multiple databases including PubMed and Embase up to October 2025.
Included randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies involving women with gestational diabetes.
Performed meta-analysis and subgroup analyses using random effects models and assessed risk of bias.
Overall meta-analysis showed a significant reduction in fasting blood glucose by -4.01 mg/dL (95% CI: -8.13 to 0.10, p = 0.02).
Combined interventions improved quality of life with an effect of 5.20 (95% CI: 3.76 to 6.64), but overall quality of life findings were not statistically significant.
20 studies involving 4,777 women were analyzed, with high heterogeneity observed (I² = 91.94%).

Shojaee et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Systematic review finds lifestyle education improves fasting blood glucose in women with gestational diabetes, suggesting effective interventions.