Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of glucose intolerance with its onset (or first diagnosis) during pregnancy and usually resolving shortly after delivery [1] . Pregnancy hormones decrease fasting glucose levels, increase fat deposition, delay gastric emptying and increase appetite. However, over the course of pregnancy, postprandial glucose concentrations increase as insulin re...

Objective: To compare the frequencies of newborn diseases in those newborns classified according to a weight/length rate and those classified by the adequacy weight for gestational age. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study by record assessment was carried out enclosing all the live newborns at Hospital Geral do Grajaú, from September to December, 2009 (n =577) classified according to ...

OBJECTIVES To provide an updated US birth weight for gestational age reference corrected for likely errors in last menstrual period (LMP)-based gestational age dating, as well as means and SDs, to enable calculation of continuous and categorical measures of birth weight for gestational age. METHODS From the 2009-2010 US live birth files, we abstracted singleton births between 22 and 44 weeks ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between gestational weight gain and maternal body mass index (BMI) among Vietnamese women and the risk of delivering an infant too small or too large for gestational age. METHODS A prospective health-facility-based study of 2989 pregnant Vietnamese women was conducted in the city of Nha Trang in 2007-2008. Cubic logistic regression was used to investigate ...

Objective. To verify if the placental thickness allows determining the gestational age, evaluating the correlation between the referred gestational age with the studied one, and the accuracy of the placental thickness measurement (biometry) with fetal morphologic parameters in bitches. Methods. The placental thickness of 336 bitches of diverse breeds was evaluated. Bitches were divided in three...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the presence of Demodex in patients with gestational diabetes and the impact of glucose regulation on Demodex density in gestational diabetes. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study population consisted of 33 patients with gestational diabetes and 30 pregnant women without gestational diabetes (control group). The age, parity, gestational age, and BMI of the study group were ...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of glucose intolerance with its onset (or first diagnosis) during pregnancy and usually resolving shortly after delivery [1] . Pregnancy hormones decrease fasting glucose levels, increase fat deposition, delay gastric emptying and increase appetite. However, over the course of pregnancy, postprandial glucose concentrations increase as insulin re...

Worldwide, different guidelines are used to assess the adequacy of gestational weight gain. This study identified the recommendations for gestational weight gain in Brazilian women. We also determined the proportion of women with adequate weight gain in accordance with these recommendations and the associated perinatal outcomes. A systematic review was performed. A computerized search was condu...