presence of maternal diabetes mellitus (dm) during pregnancy has important consequences for both mother and child. to determine maternal and fetal/neonatal complications of gestational dm and compare them with pre-gestational dm, a prospective study was performed in 100 diabetic women delivered in our hospital from january 2001 to april 2002. pregnancy outcome in 27 women with gestational dm an...

introduction:maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with depleted fetal iron stores and this is proportionate to the degree of maternal control, presence or absence of diabetes-related complications, and is not related to maternal iron status. in this study, we aim to assess the effect of maternal diabetes on cord blood serum ferritin. methods: the present prospective (case-control) study was...

background: the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) in accordance to body mass index (bmi) is often based on studies where the calculation of bmi is frequently self-reported and is usually unreliable. we evaluated the risk of an abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (ogtt) in a population where bmi was measured and selective screening for gdm was practiced. methods: we carried out a pros...

conclusions we did not find significant differences in ventricular function or ventricular septal thickness in the fetuses of mothers who were referred to our hospital with a previous diagnosis of diabetes mellitus compared with the fetuses of non-diabetic mothers. this could be due to early identification, appropriate treatment, and tightly controlled diabetes in our study population. it shoul...

BACKGROUND Maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of offspring congenital heart defects (CHD); however, the causal mechanism is poorly understood. We further investigated this association in a Danish nationwide cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS In a national cohort study, we identified 2 025 727 persons born from 1978 to 2011; among them were 7296 (0.36%) persons exposed to...

OBJECTIVES The current study sought to identify macroscopic placental changes associated with clinical conditions in women with or without diabetes and their newborns. METHODS The study population consisted of 62 pregnant women clinically diagnosed with diabetes and 62 healthy women (control group). RESULTS Among the subjects with diabetes, 43 women (69.3%) were diagnosed with gestational d...

BACKGROUND Maternal diabetes mellitus in pregnancy results in greater offspring adiposity at birth. It is unclear whether it is associated with greater adiposity into adulthood, and if so, whether this is via intrauterine mechanisms or shared familial characteristics. METHODS AND RESULTS A record-linkage prospective cohort study of 280,866 singleton-born Swedish men from 248,293 families was ...

Our aim was to evaluate the association between gestational diabetes mellitus and sonographically measured fetal epicardial fat thickness between 24-28 weeks' gestation. This was a cross-sectional study that included 40 pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus, matched with 40 normal pregnancies with similar maternal age, body-mass index, gestational age, fetal gender, and fetal abdominal...

insulin is currently the drug of choice in treating patients with gestational diabetes mellitus but insulin is expensive, inconvenient to store and use and probably associated with more risks of asymptomatic hypoglycemia in comparison with some oral agents. this randomized clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of glyburide in patients with gestational diabetes mellitu...

Objective: To explore the main risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus in Wuhan, China. Methods: 206 women with gestational diabetes mellitus who were diagnosed in Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital between January 2014 and December 2015 were selected as case group. Meanwhile, 286 healthy pregnant women, who were delivered at the same time, were selected as control group. Maternal a...