Metformin vs insulin: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (pregnancy‐induced hypertension)
Maternal outcomes: oral anti‐diabetic agent (metformin) may leads to lower hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: pregnancy‐induced hypertension compared with insulin (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Maternal outcomes: oral anti‐diabetic agent (metformin) vs insulin Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: pregnancy‐induced hypertension · women with type 2 diabetes Maternal outcomes: oral anti‐diabetic agent (metformin) may leads to lower hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: pregnancy‐induced hypertension compared with insulin (low certainty). Oral anti‐diabetic agents for women with established diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance or previous… (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.58 [0.37, 0.91] | 1 study · 206 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral anti‐diabetic agents for women with established diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance or previous gestational diabetes planning… 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.