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New Rochelle, NY, July 2, 2018–A new study has shown that despite excellent glycemic control and low glycemic variability throughout their pregnancies, women with type 1 diabetes tended to give birth to infants who were large for gestational age. Researchers documented elevated fetal weight and abdominal circumference percentages throughout the pregnancies that were consistent with accelerated prenatal growth, as documented in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the DTT website until August 2, 2018.
Florence Brown, MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Harvard Medical School, and coauthors from these institutions and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to determine glycemic variability over a 7-day period in each trimester of the women's pregnancies. In the article entitled "Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Glycemic Variability, and Excessive Fetal Growth in Pregnancies Complicated by Type 1 Diabetes" the researchers reported mean HbA1c of 6.5%, 6.1%, and 6.4% during the first, second, and third trimester, respectively.
"Fetal macrosomia continues to be a problem in patients with type 1 diabetes associated with pregnancy despite improvements in overall glucose control. With the availability of a hybrid-closed loop system, it will be important to see if fetal overweight can be reduced with automatic delivery of insulin based on sensor glucose values," says DTT Editor-in-Chief Satish Garg, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver (Aurora).
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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers T32ES007069 and R01ES026166. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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https://home.liebertpub.com/news/joslin-researchers-report-excessive-fetal-growth-despite-well-controlled-type-1-diabetes/2399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/dia.2017.0443