Interactive effects of prepregnancy overweight and gestational diabetes on macrosomia and large for gestational age: A population-based prospective cohort in Tianjin, China

The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been dramatically increasing worldwide including China[1], accounting for 7% of pregnant women in the world[2]. It is well established that GDM predisposes pregnant women to high risk of delivery of macrosomic infants while lifestyle intervention of GDM reduces the rate of macrosomia or large for gestational age (LGA) infants although not all trials showed that such intervention was also able to reduce the risk of perinatal morbidities[3,4].

Source: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice - June 30, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Wen Yang, Jin Liu, Jing Li, Jinnan Liu, Hongyan Liu, Yue Wang, Junhong Leng, Shuo Wang, Huaxi Chen, Juliana C.N. Chan, Zhijie Yu, Gang Hu, Xilin Yang Source Type: research