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Filter by:Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a condition of carbohydrate intolerance with onset or first recognition in pregnancy. The prevalence of GDM is as high as 25% in some populations and continues to rise with the increase in obesity and type-2 diabetes. GDM places the pregnancy at great risk to both the mother and the neonate. Recent studies have proven that interventions including dietary and medications lower the risk to the pregnancy. Both the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommend dietary interventions with daily glucose monitoring as the initial treatment of choice. Meanwhile, outside of pregnancy, promising new technologies such as continuous glucose monitors (CGM) are revolutionizing diabetic care. The investigators seek to determine if the constant feedback of a real-time CGM system would improve glycemic control compared to traditional management in GDM
Double-blind, parallel arm, randomized controlled trial, in which non-lactating women with recent GDM who are between 6 to 36 months postpartum to be randomized to either empagliflozin 10 mg daily or matching placebo. The duration of treatment will be 48-weeks. Beta-cell function will be assessed by Insulin Secretion-Sensitivity Index-2 (ISSI-2), measured on oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at baseline, 24-weeks, 48-weeks, and after a 4-week washout.
Our study will assess if there is a difference in incidence of gestational diabetes using different screening approaches, either using a one-step approach with a 2 hour glucose tolerance test or using a two-step approach. Prior studies have proven similar incidences including a randomized controlled trial.
The cerebro-placental ratio (CPR) is a tool for assessment of fetal wellbeing in the management of the growth restricted fetus. CPR is the ratio of the fetal middle cerebral artery pulsatility index (PI) to the umbilical artery PI. In Gestational Diabetes (GDM), the common finding is of accelerated and asymmetric fetal growth. Pregnancies complicated by GDM have an increased risk of certain complications such as preeclampsia, intrauterine demise, CS due to fetal distress. These complications have a well known association with fetal growth restriction leading to the hypothesis that there exists a subset of diabetic fetuses that exhibit a growth restriction phenotype despite not being small for gestational age (<10%).The objective of this study is to examine whether the CPR can identify GDM fetuses that are not growth restricted but are at increased risk of certain adverse neonatal outcomes. Women with singleton pregnancies and a diagnosis of GDM at 24 weeks of gestation and beyond will be included. Exclusion criteria are Pre-gestational diabetes, hypertensive disease of pregnancy at time of recruitment, fetus with a known major anomaly, fetal EFW < 10%(IUGR). Women who consent to the study will have a blinded Doppler assessment of CPR. Clinicians will be blinded to these Doppler measurements (unless they are indicated clinically for another reason (suspected fetal anemia or IUGR development- and the results will be unblinded and reported to the clinicians). Obstetric and neonatal outcomes will be collected prospctively via the local BORN database and the patient chart. Local BORN is needed for the registered outcomes. Newborns will be divided post-hoc into two groups: A) last CPR <10% B) Last CPR > 10%. The primary outcome will be a composite outcome consisting of one or more of the following: Caesarean section due to suspected fetal distress, 5 minute Apgar <7, Cord arterial PH < 7, HIE, NICU admission >24 hours.
There is a rapidly escalating epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes across the world, with the fastest rise occurring in low- and middle-income countries. India not only has one of the highest rates in the world, but the disease starts at a younger age and lower levels of body weight than in UK white caucasians. Among city-dwelling Indians, approximately 8% of people aged 30-40 years already have diabetes. This is creating a heavy burden of disease and disability, and an intolerable economic burden through medical costs and lost earnings. Until now, efforts to prevent diabetes have mainly focussed on modifying the diet, lifestyle and activity of at-risk adults (for example those who are overweight, have a family history of diabetes or already have high blood sugar). However, recent research has indicated that factors acting in early life (during development in the womb) place an individual at risk of later diabetes. These include maternal malnutrition and low birthweight, and diabetes in the mother during pregnancy. Our research has shown that Indian mothers often have low vitamin B12 levels, which in turn causes high blood levels of a harmful metabolite (homocysteine). We have shown that these mothers get more diabetes in pregnancy. Their children are more likely to born with a low birth weight, and develop more body fat and higher plasma insulin levels during childhood, which are signs of higher diabetes risk in later life. The risk is increased further if the mother has normal or high status for another B vitamin, folate. Thus, we have shown, for the first time a link between a specific nutritional deficiency in the mother and diabetes risk in the next generation. One possible mechanism for the effect of maternal nutrition on risk of diabetes in her children is through epigenetic effects, whereby the nutritional environment during early development affects the switches that control gene expression. Since these switches are passed on via either parent, we think it is possible that paternal vitamin B12 status could also be important.
One approach to prevent the rising burden of diabetes is to address the issue of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). GDM has a growing prevalence up to 5-10% (and even higher in specific subgroups), with a pregnant population becoming older and more obese worldwide. GDM increases the risks of complications during pregnancy, at delivery and on the longer term, like type 2 diabetes (T2D) and persistent obesity, in mother and child. Moreover, insulin added to diet as the standard care for GDM has disadvantages for mother (maintenance of hyperinsulinaemia, increasing weight and blood pressure) and child (macrosomia, hypoglycaemia) with related adverse pregnancy outcomes. Metformin, as an insulin sensitizer targeting the cause of GDM, may have essential benefits, as suggested by observational studies. However, RCTs with metformin (early positioned in the treatment of GDM) are still lacking. The POEM study is the first Randomized controlled trial (RCT) in GDM to test the hypothesis that metformin, early given from the start of the diagnosis GDM, on top of diet and lifestyle improves clinically relevant pregnancy outcomes in mother and child during pregnancy, at delivery and on the longer term - up to 20 years after birth.
This study seeks to evaluate patient satisfaction within the patient therapeutic education program "gestational diabetes" (multidisciplinary and multi-professional program) to see if they deem effective to limit the impact of gestational diabetes on pregnancy . Patients are questioned on the skills acquired in everyday life, the effective support in personal development, development of self-determination capabilities and communication with health professionals. This study must include all patients participating in the therapeutic education program for a year and meeting the inclusion criteria.
Assessing blood glucose control in women with gestational diabetes can be challenging. The standard of care remains visual inspection of blood glucose paper diaries of self-performed capillary monitoring during regular meeting in High Risk pregnancy clinics. The researchers are interested in preforming a randomized control trial comparing women with the diagnosis of gestational diabetes with regular High-Risk clinic surveillance to digital monitoring using an application in a Smart-phone and submitting those values via email in addition to the regular clinic appointments. The Primary outcome of the trial is to assess the compliance of the research group as compared to the control group.
There is a lack of international uniformity in the approach to the screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The new diagnostic criteria by the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) based on data from the study of Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (HAPO) have created controversy because of the lack of clinical evidence of treatment benefit for mild GDM and the treatment effects on perinatal outcomes. The purpose of the present study is to know the efficacy of treatment to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes in Mexican women diagnosed with GDM by IADPSG criteria.
Pregnant women with gestational diabetes who are treated with insulin and their daily insulin dose is 30 IU or more will be randomized into two groups. Active treatment group will receive insulin-glucose-infusion during labour. In the observational group, blood glucose level during labour will be monitored and insulin-glucose-infusion is started only if needed. The hypothesis is that there will not be a difference in rate of hypoglycemia between the two groups and that the proportion of observational group participants that need infusion is low.