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Characterization of Metabolic Status in Nonhuman Primates with the Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test
Published on: November 13, 2016
[A glucose tolerance study in the 12 months postpartum in patients with gestational diabetes]
I Fernández Fernández1, C J Costa Mestanza, J L Griera Borrás
1Unidad de Diabetes y Embarazo, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla.
Background:
It has been reported that patients with gestational diabetes have a considerable long term risk of developing diabetes mellitus.
Method:
Glucose tolerance was studied in the 12 months following birth in 155 patients diagnosed by the authors as having gestational diabetes and followed during pregnancy.
Results:
It was observed that in 48% of the patients alterations persisted (33% glucose intolerance and 15% diabetes mellitus). Glucose tolerance during gestation and the perinatal results were retrospectively analyzed with a relation with the postpartum reclassification being observed.
Conclusions:
It was estimated that the percentage of alterations in glucose tolerance persisting postpartum is extremely high, suggesting the need for this test with a double objective: the reclassification of gestational diabetes and the early detection of glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus.
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