Prevalence and risk factors for gestational diabetes assessed by universal screening

Non classical risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review of the literature

“…A high statistical significance (< 0.0001) was also found in an adjusted analysis in the difference between weight gain among pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus or not, at the moment of the diagnosis, in the study of Di Cianni et al 33 .…”

“…Although publication bias cannot be ruled out, the challenge in including short stature as a risk factor for gestational diabetes mellitus seems to be the definition of the cut-off point for this variable. In Brazil, based on the Brazilian Gestational Diabetes Study (EBDG), the study of Branchtein et al 27 defined it as ≤ 151cm, however studies in other countries observed associations using different height categories 21,25,26,29,33 .…”

“…Jang et al 25 1998 and Di Cianni et al 33 2003 found greater ratio of women with gestational diabetes mellitus in the group with parity ≥ 2, in comparison to primiparas. After controlling for age, pre-pregnancy BMI, height, family history of diabetes mellitus and weight gain during pregnancy, both results were non statistically significant.…”

“…Short stature associated to gestational diabetes mellitus had been found for all the groups in the crude analysis, although the association between Afro-Caribbean was not statistically significant 32 . On the other hand, studying several risks for the development of gestational diabetes mellitus, Di Cianni et al 33 and Innes et al 21 , respectively, in Italian and American populations, had also found a significant inverse association between height and gestational diabetes mellitus, even after adjustments for confounders.…”

Actividad De La Glutatión Reductasa en El Embarazo Diabético

“…La combinación del aumento en la producción de especies oxidantes y una disminución de las defensas antioxidantes contribuye al aumento del estrés oxidativo en los eritrocitos en condiciones de diabetes mellitus y esto es probablemente la causa de partos problemáticos en embarazos en los que se desarrolla diabetes gestacional (desarrollo de preeclampsia-eclampsia), asociados a una disminución en la concentración de GSH y de la actividad de la glutatión peroxidasa (13)(14)(15)(16). La ligera disminución de la actividad de la glutatión reductasa observada en nuestras pacientes con diabetes gestacional podría producir una disminución en la cantidad intracelular de GSH necesaria para proteger a las células del estrés oxidativo.…”