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Filter by:The physiological change in food and sleep pattern during Ramadan impacted hypoglycemia risks among pregnant women. Few studies investigated the incidence of hypoglycemia pregnant women with or without diabetes during fasting in Ramadan in Saudi Arabia. This study aims to understand the glucose variability in pregnant women during fasting Ramadan in Saudi Arabia.
Inositol is a type of food additives, which plays an important role in insulin signal pathway and is related to insulin sensitivity. Our randomized, double-centered, placebo-controlled study is planned to recruit 360 pregnant women who is in high risk for gestational diabetes. They will be assumed randomly 1 g of D-chiro inositol per day or placebo from 12-16th gestational weeks until Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) at 24-28th gestational weeks. Perinatal outcomes about delivery time, neonatal weight will be registered.
The main objective of our study is to investigate the metabolic effects of whey protein (whey protein isolate, WPI, (Lacprodan® ISO.Water. from Arla Foods Ingredients) compared to placebo when consumed by women in risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GMD) 30 minutes prior to an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). We will also investigate any changes in substrate metabolism and energy expenditure using indirect calorimetry. Differences in hunger and satiety parameters as well as rate of gastric emptying will also be assessed. Furthermore, we will investigate the glucose response when the women consume the intervention at home in their own environment 30 minutes before breakfast in various doses (placebo, 10, 15, 20, 30 g whey). The women will be monitored with continuous glucose monitors, activity monitors and all meals will be provided. The two study days in the laboratory will be repeated 3-9 months after pregnancy. The purpose of this is to be able to compare the metabolic response of pre-meal whey during pregnancy with the response in a not-pregnant state. The study days at home will not be repeated after pregnancy.
Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease complicating pregnancy, and the number of women in childbearing age facing this problem is rising worldwide. The clinical and social significance of pre-gestational diabetes has become an important issue in the area of public health because this disease can cause maternal complications and influence the development of the offspring during the pregnancy and later in life. Pregnancy in women with pregestational diabetes is indeed associated with adverse perinatal outcomes including large-for gestational- age infants (ranging from 48.8 to 62.5%), preterm delivery, and other perinatal complications. Large-for-gestational-age infants to mothers with diabetes are at increased risk for birth trauma, transient tachypnea, and neonatal hypoglycemia. For all these reasons, the medical costs and social burdens caused by this disease are problematic. The mainstay of managing diabetes during pregnancy is glucose monitoring. Conventionally, glucose monitoring is by self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) involving multiple pricks to the patients. The limitations of these pricks include pain and a point-in-time assessment without evaluation of the complete glycemic profile before making therapeutic adjustments. Introduction of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) by measuring interstitial fluid glucose has overcome the deficits in SMBG by providing an overview of the glycemic profiles in patients. In most recent years another promising tool became available: the Flash Glucose Monitoring (FGM) system. Unlike traditional sensor systems, its wired enzyme sensor is calibrated in the factory and therefore requires no user calibrations (fingerstick blood glucose measurements) during the 14 days of wear. Recent studies demonstrated that FGM is effective in reducing glucose fluctuations and preventing hypoglycemic events in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetic patients. No evidence is to date available on the efficacy of FGM on the reduction of the perinatal adverse outcomes during pregnancy in women with pre-gestational diabetes. The investigators propose to randomize a group of women with poorly controlled pregestational diabetes to receive SMBG (standard antenatal care) or FGM plus SMBG during pregnancy.
Studies suggest that the timing interval between oral intake and the 1-hour gestational diabetes screen may have a significant impact on gestational diabetes screening glucose levels. The investigators plan to conduct a prospective randomized trial comparing a 6-hour fast versus liberal oral intake within 2 hours prior to the glucose tolerance test in pregnancy in order to evaluate the effect of the fasting versus the fed state on routine gestational diabetes screening results.
This study seeks to expand upon and update this body of work. It will explore the knowledge and understanding women with diabetes have around pregnancy and conception, as well as establish how well prepared these women are for a pregnancy. Using this data, we will develop better services to inform women with diabetes about the contraception and pregnancy, as well inform the development of pre-conception counselling services for women with diabetes. If successful, we would anticipate seeing an improvement in performance in future National Diabetes in Pregnancy audits.
This study addresses education needs in gestational diabetes care and followup at the staff and patient levels. In the initial phase, nurses and community health workers will complete specific training modules on gestational diabetes developed for this study. The effectiveness of the education modules will be evaluated through pre/post surveys of participants assessing diabetes knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.
Our aim was to investigate and compare placental elasticity by using Shear wave elastography (SWE) in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) with and without insulin to non-diabetic controls. This prospective study included 319 pregnant patients. Three groups were created as follows: Group 1 (n= 79, GDM with insulin therapy), Group 2 (n=90, GDM with only diet) and Group 3 (n= 150, healthy controls) All patients were above 36 gestational weeks with anterior placenta. Totally six measurements including the central and peripheral parts (right, left) of the placenta both from maternal and fetal sites were obtained with SWE. Demographic, obstetrics, fetal and perinatal features were also compared. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was plotted and cut-off of elastographic velocity values were noted
Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a form of diabetes that develops during pregnancy. GDM is associated with increased risks for pregnancy complications such as macrosomia s and preterm delivery. Women with a history of GDM have a high risk to develop a type 2 diabetes (T2DM) within the next ten years after delivery. The children are also at increased risk of developing obesity and T2DM later in life. Studies are needed to find more accurate predictors for the metabolic risk later in life. This will help to individualize the follow-up and to develop tailored prevention strategies in women and offspring with a history of GDM. In this research project we will therefore investigate how the long-term metabolic risk can more accurately be predicted in a follow-up cohort of the 'Belgian Diabetes in Pregnancy study' (BEDIP-N). We will study the relationship between maternal weight, degree of body fat and degree of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy on the long-term metabolic risk of 375 women and offspring pairs 3-7 years after the delivery across different gestational glucose tolerance groups based on the 2013 WHO criteria in pregnancy. In addition, we will study whether a promising new biomarker, glycated CD59, is a good predictor for the long-term metabolic risk.
The ROKSANA study is an open-label crossover RCT with the aim to evaluate whether sensor-augmented pump therapy (SAP) with predictive low glucose suspend technology is associated with an increased risk for ketonaemia during type 1 diabetes pregnancies.