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Environ Health 2021 Jun 14;20(1):70. Epub 2021 Jun 14.

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.

Background: Exposure to ionizing radiation has been associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. In light of recent work showing an association between ambient particulate matter (PM) gross β-activity and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among pregnant women, we examined pregnancy glucose levels in relation to PM gross β-activity to better understand this pathway.

Methods: Our study included 103 participants receiving prenatal care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Read More

Pregnancy Hypertens 2021 Jun 2;25:136-142. Epub 2021 Jun 2.

Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Postbox 1171 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway; Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Oslo University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, 0450 Oslo, Norway; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Baerum Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Sogneprest Munthe-Kaas vei 100, 1346 Gjettum, Norway. Electronic address:

Objectives: Women with previous preeclampsia (PE), gestational hypertension (GH), or gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Physical activity (PA) is an important CVD risk modifier. We aimed to assess PA levels, using a validated objective method, and other modifiable CVD risk factors in women with these previous pregnancy complications. Read More

Midwifery 2021 May 20;101:103043. Epub 2021 May 20.

School of Health Care Sciences, Bangor University, Archimedes Centre, Wrexham Technology Park, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham, Wales, LL13 7YP.

Background: The evidence base relating to women's engagement and experiences of postnatal care following Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the United Kingdom is limited. Additionally, the uptake of a postnatal fasting blood glucose testing following Gestational Diabetes Mellitus appears to be poor.

Objective: This study aimed to explore women's engagement, views and experiences of postnatal care following Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the United Kingdom. Read More

Environ Int 2021 Jun 11;155:106677. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

MOE Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health and Aristogenics, Anhui Medical University, No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui, China; Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui, China. Electronic address:

Few studies have investigated the association of gestational exposure to phthalate with metabolic risk and have reached inconsistent conclusions. Based on the Ma'anshan Birth Cohort, 3273 women were included in the present study. All participants provided up to three urine samples for 7 phthalate metabolite measurements. Read More

J Am Acad Dermatol 2021 Jun 11. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

Department of Dermatology, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Hempstead, NY. Electronic address:

Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) disproportionately affects women of childbearing age. However, pregnancy and maternal outcomes for women with HS are unknown.

Objective: To compare risk of adverse pregnancy and maternal outcomes among women with and without HS, and to evaluate influence of comorbid conditions. Read More

Gac Med Mex 2021 ;157(1):47-51

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women; preeclampsia (PE) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are associated with an increased risk of CVD.

Objective: To evaluate general practitioners (GP) knowledge about complicated pregnancies and their association with CVD.

Methods: An anonymous case-based electronic questionnaire designed to assess the level of understanding on the influence of a history of pregnancy complications on long-term cardiovascular risk and general knowledge about CVD risk was sent to GPs. Read More

J Pregnancy 2021 1;2021:4654828. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.

Background: Preeclampsia occurs in up to 5% of all pregnancies, in 10% of first pregnancies, and 20-25% of women with a history of chronic hypertension.

Objective: This study aims to assess the determinants of preeclampsia among women attending delivery services in public hospitals of central Tigray, Ethiopia.

Methods: Hospital-based unmatched case-control study design was conducted. Read More

Endocr Pract 2021 Jun 17;27(6):579-585. Epub 2020 Dec 17.

Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Clinical Sciences Research Laboratories, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX, United Kingdom.

Objective: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. This study aimed to identify early and reliable GDM predictors that would enable implementation of preventive and management measures.

Methods: The participants were a 28-week prospective cohort of in vitro fertilization (IVF)-conceived pregnant women (≤39 years, body mass index [BMI] 18. Read More

Eur J Clin Invest 2021 Jun 13:e13628. Epub 2021 Jun 13.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Background: In clinical practice, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is treated as a homogenous disease but emerging evidence suggests that the diagnosis of GDM possibly comprises different metabolic entities. In this study, we aimed to assess early pregnancy characteristics of gestational diabetes mellitus entities classified according to the presence of fasting and/or post-load hyperglycaemia in the diagnostic oral glucose tolerance test performed at mid-gestation.

Methods: In this prospective cohort study, 1087 pregnant women received a broad risk evaluation and laboratory examination at early gestation and were later classified as normal glucose tolerant (NGT), as having isolated fasting hyperglycaemia (GDM-IFH), isolated post-load hyperglycaemia (GDM-IPH) or combined hyperglycaemia (GDM-CH) according to oral glucose tolerance test results. Read More

Ann Palliat Med 2021 Jun 8. Epub 2021 Jun 8.

Department of Obstetrics, Xingtai People's Hospital Affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Xingtai, China.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common complications during pregnancy. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the changes in vitamin A, vitamin E, and oxidative stress levels, and pregnancy outcomes in GDM patients.

Methods: A total of 104 GDM patients admitted to our hospital between January 2018 and January 2019 were selected as the study group, and 126 pregnant women who received healthy examinations in the same hospital during the same period were selected as the control group. Read More

BMJ Open 2021 Jun 11;11(6):e048119. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women's Health, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Introduction: Mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at increased risk of pregnancy-related complications and developing type 2 diabetes after delivery. Diet and physical activity-based interventions may prevent GDM, but variations in populations, interventions and outcomes in primary trials have limited the translation of available evidence into practice. We plan to undertake an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomised trials to assess the differential effects and cost-effectiveness of diet and physical activity-based interventions in preventing GDM and its complications. Read More

Diabetes Care 2021 Jun 11. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

Inserm U1283, CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France.

Objective: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with an increased risk of obesity and insulin resistance in offspring later in life, which might be explained by epigenetic changes in response to maternal hyperglycemic exposure.

Research Design And Methods: We explored the association between GDM exposure and maternal blood and newborn cord blood methylation in 536 mother-offspring pairs from the prospective FinnGeDi cohort using Illumina MethylationEPIC 850K BeadChip arrays. We assessed two hypotheses. Read More

Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2021 Apr 18. Epub 2021 Apr 18.

Mater Research Institute-The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Department of Endocrinology, Mater Health, Australia. Electronic address:

Background And Aims: Previous literature have shown a diversity of findings regarding the relationship between the maternal gut microbiota and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We investigated the gut microbiota of overweight and obese women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) against matched euglycaemic women at 16 and 28-weeks' gestation.

Methods And Results: This study included women from the SPRING (Study of PRobiotics IN Gestational diabetes) cohort. Read More

J Diabetes Res 2021 18;2021:5516937. Epub 2021 May 18.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 10034, China.

Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been dramatically increasing worldwide. The aims of this study were to examine associations of GDM with pregnancy outcomes in Chinese urban women and to evaluate the interaction between GDM and other major risk factors for the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective analysis included 8844 women who delivered live singletons at ≥28 weeks of gestation between June 2012 and March 2013 among Chinese urban women. Read More

Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes 2021 3;14:2495-2504. Epub 2021 Jun 3.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Center for Healthcare Quality Management in Obstetrics, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, 100191, People's Republic of China.

Purpose: Although previous studies have shown that choline-related metabolites in one carbon metabolism (OCM) were related to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk in singleton pregnancy, their role in twin gestations remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the associations between choline, betaine, methionine, dimethylglycine (DMG), trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and GDM risk among women with twin gestations.

Patients And Methods: This hospital-based cohort study included 187 women with dichorionic twin gestations. Read More

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2021 Jun 10;21(1):424. Epub 2021 Jun 10.

School of Nursing, Xinjiang Medical University, No. 567, Shangde North Road, Urumqi, 830000, Xinjiang, China.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is very commonly-seen in clinical settings, and GDM patients may have higher levels of anxiety. It's necessary to evaluate the anxiety level and potentially influencing factors in patients with GDM, to provide insights for the management of anxiety of GDM patients.

Methods: Patients with GDM treated in our hospital from May, 2018 to May, 2020 were included. Read More

J Diabetes Investig 2021 Jun 10. Epub 2021 Jun 10.

Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the Japanese Society of Diabetes and Pregnancy (JSDP) proposed the use of random plasma glucose and HbA1c measured 1 month after delivery combined with pre-pregnancy body mass index to detect postpartum glucose intolerance instead of performing oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in women with gestational diabetes. We retrospectively evaluated the clinical utility of this strategy to detect postpartum glucose intolerance evaluated by OGTT after delivery. Two hundred and seventy-five Japanese women with gestational diabetes were included in the present study. Read More

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021 24;12:612829. Epub 2021 May 24.

Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Rome-Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Identifying among GDM women those who are at high risk may help prevent T2DM and, possibly CVD. Several studies have shown that in women with GDM, hyperglycemia at 1 h during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) (1-h PG) is not only associated with an increase in adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes but is also an independent predictor of T2DM. Read More

Endocr J 2021 Jun 10. Epub 2021 Jun 10.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.

Interventions for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), diagnosed in early pregnancy, have been a topic of controversy. This study aimed to elucidate factors that predict patients with GDM diagnosed before 24 gestational weeks (early GDM: E-GDM) who require insulin therapy later during pregnancy. Furthermore, we identified patients whose impaired glucose tolerance should be strictly controlled from early gestation onward. Read More

Bioengineered 2021 Dec;12(1):2410-2419

First Department of Obstetrics, Chongqing Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Chongqing, China.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a common complication of pregnancy, harms the health of pregnant women and fetuses. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) dysregulation in placenta is involved in GDM. Herein, we explored the roles of miR-362-5p in GDM. Read More

Ann Palliat Med 2021 May;10(5):5652-5658

Obstetrics Department, Haikou Hospital of the Maternal and Child Health, Haikou, China.

Background: To investigate the effects of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids on glucose and blood lipid metabolism in gestational diabetes (GDM) women.

Methods: A total of 150 patients with GDM aged 18-40 who were admitted to our hospital from May 2019 to December 2020 were enrolled in this study. The subjects were divided into test and control groups according to whether they took vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids. Read More

Medicine (Baltimore) 2021 May;100(19):e25877

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common metabolic disorder syndrome in women during pregnancy. If effective measures are not taken to intervene in the early stage of GDM, severe effects will damage maternal and infant health. ABO is the most important human blood group system. Read More

Ginekol Pol 2021 Jun 9. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Department of Gynecology and Gynecological Oncology, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland.

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a metabolic disorder that is considered a prediabetes state. According to the International Diabetes Federation every year an increase in the number of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes is being noticed. It is known that GDM can cause many complications during pregnancy and labor. Read More

Ginekol Pol 2021 Jun 9. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the presence of the disease in pregnancy influences the effectiveness and safety of delivery preinduction with prostaglandins: misoprostol vaginal insert and dinoprostone vaginal gel.

Material And Methods: This is aretrospective cohort study conducted of 560 pregnant women. The concomitant diseases mainly recorded were diabetes mellitus, hypertensive diseases, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, asthma, thrombocytopenia, and hypothyroidism. Read More

Ginekol Pol 2021 Jun 9. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Unit, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Objectives: It is currently unknown that how pregnant women deal with the Coronavirus disease and its results. The aim of this study is to evaluate the psychological impact of the coronavirus pandemic on pregnant women and to determine whether pregnant women have sufficient knowledge and awareness for a healthy antenatal process.

Material And Methods: This study was conducted at two centers. Read More

Arch Gynecol Obstet 2021 Jun 9. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Serviço de Endocrinologia do Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa, Avenida do Hospital Padre Américo 210, Guilhufe, 4564-007, Penafiel, Portugal.

Hyperglycaemia first detected during pregnancy is either gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) or previous undiagnosed diabetes. We aimed to study if there were a first trimester fasting glycaemia (FTG) and a glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) cut-off values associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) or abnormal glucose homeostasis (AGH) at the post-partum oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) reclassification. We retrospectively studied a group of pregnant women from the Portuguese National Registry of GDM. Read More

Biomed Res Int 2021 19;2021:1984690. Epub 2021 May 19.

Department of Obstetrics, Zibo Central Hospital, Zibo City, Shandong Province, 255000, China.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the most prevalent metabolic disease during pregnancy, but the diagnosis is controversial and lagging partly due to the lack of useful biomarkers. CpG methylation is involved in the development of GDM. However, the specific CpG methylation sites serving as diagnostic biomarkers of GDM remain unclear. Read More

J Med Life 2021 Mar-Apr;14(2):131-141

Department of Health Information Management, Health Human Resources Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

This study attempted to review the evidence for or against the effectiveness of mobile health (m-health) interventions on health outcomes improvement and/or gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) management. PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase databases were searched from 2000 to 10 July 2018 to find studies investigating the effect of m-health on GDM management. After removing duplications, a total of 27 articles met our defined inclusion criteria. Read More

Int J Med Sci 2021 13;18(12):2653-2660. Epub 2021 May 13.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korea University Medicine, Seoul 02841, Korea.

Macrosomic birth weight has been implicated as a significant risk factor for developing various adult metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and coronary heart diseases; it has also been associated with higher incidences of complicated births. This study aimed to examine the predictability of macrosomic births in hyperglycemic pregnant women using maternal clinical characteristics and serum biomarkers of aneuploidy screening performed in the first half of pregnancy. A retrospective observational study was performed on a cohort of 1,668 pregnant women who 1) had positive outcomes after undergoing 50-g oral glucose challenge test (OGCT) at two university-based hospitals and 2) underwent any one of the following maternal biomarker screening tests for fetal aneuploidy: triple test, quadruple test, and integrated test. Read More