View clinical trials related to Gestational Diabetes.
Filter by:Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), defined as hyperglycemia with blood glucose values above normal but below those diagnostic of DM, and iron deficiency (ID) with or without anemia (IDA) are common during pregnancy. Both disease patterns are associated with an increased risk of complications during pregnancy and at delivery and may have a variety of negative effects on different aspects of child development. Thus, GDM and ID/IDA during pregnancy should be prevented. Whether iron supplementation with high oral doses acutely increases hepcidin during pregnancy, and whether this acute iron-induced increase in hepcidin decreases insulin sensitivity, is uncertain.
Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems provide users with information about current glucose levels and alert the patient before the upper or lower glucose threshold is reached or when glucose levels change rapidly. Hence, glycaemic excursions can be early identified and accordingly adapted by behavioural change or pharmacologic intervention. Randomized controlled studies adequately powered to evaluate the impact of long-term application of real-time CGM systems on the risk reduction of adverse obstetric outcomes are missing.
The purpose of this study is to determine if Continuous glucose monitoring improves glycemic control and pregnancy outcomes of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
The investigatiors aimed to conduct a well-designed RCT to firstly focus on GDM women controlled with only diet and exercise, and provide an optimize process on their timing and mode of delivery
The Shenzhen Birth Cohort Study was set up to investigate the effect of early life environmental exposures on short- and long-term health consequences in Shenzhen, China.
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects 10 % of women who receive prenatal care at Instituto Nacional de Perinatología (Mexico, City). Currently, there is clear evidence on the utility of self- monitoring of capillary glucose (SMGC) to evaluate the efficacy of medical-nutrition therapy on glycemic control. However, the reports regarding the best pattern of SMGC in terms of frequency and number of determinations per day are limited. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of two SMGC schemes for monitoring glycemic control in Mexican women with GDM.
Glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes are common complications of pregnancy. Their prevalence varies worldwide secondary to differences in screening practices (one-step versus two-step approach) and population characteristics (increased maternal age, body mass index, ethnicity). Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with increased incidence of macrosomia, operative vaginal delivery, shoulder dystocia, cesarean delivery, metabolic complications in the newborn and long-term risk of developing type II diabetes mellitus (HAPO 2008). Early diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes mellitus, including dietary advice and insulin, improves maternal and fetal outcomes (Crowther 2005, Hartling 2013). Various strategies have been tested prenatally to detect those fetuses that might be adversely affected by gestational diabetes mellitus. For instance, the abdominal circumference measurement during routine fetal biometry was used successfully to identify pregnancies with a higher risk of fetal macrosomia (Schaefer-Graf 2003, De Reu 2008, Rosati 2010). In recent years, the fetal interventricular septum thickness, as detected by two-dimensional ultrasound, was shown to be significantly thicker in the presence of gestational diabetes mellitus, independently of maternal glycemic control, when compared to pregnancies with no gestational diabetes mellitus (Ren 2011, Garg 2014). Current guidelines focus on normalisation of maternal blood glucose concentration. Thus far no study has addressed whether measurement of the fetal interventricular septum thickness can predict adverse pregnancy outcome in euglycemic women with gestational diabetes mellitus.
The study aims to identify the number of MODY patients to be found among Emirati women with GDM as the incidence and prevalence of monogenic diabetes among this group of patients is unknown. This will enable improvements in diagnostics, treatment and the counselling of these women.
The goal of this study is to compare two different thresholds for initiation of medical treatment for GDM. Pregnant women diagnosed with GDM will be randomized to either start pharmacotherapy when they have reached at least 20% or at least 40% of capillary blood glucose (CBG) values above the target goal. The investigators hypothesize that a lower threshold of 20% elevated CBG levels, compared to 40%, will lead to lower rates of obstetric and medical complications.
The aim of the study is to evaluate differences in pregnancy outcomes and medical costs depending on gestational diabetes diagnostic criteria used (one vs two-step approach).