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Serum chromium levels in gestational diabetes mellitus
P G Sundararaman1, G R Sridhar, V Sujatha
1Department of Endocrinology, Apollo Hospitals, Gream's lane, Off Gream's Road, Chennai, India.
Objective:
To measure serum chromium level in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) from Chennai, South India.
Materials And Methods:
Thirty women with gestational diabetes, 60 age matched controls.
Inclusion Criteria:
Gestational age 22-28 weeks, age group 20-35 years.
Exclusion Criteria:
Gestational age beyond 28 weeks, malnutrition or presence of infection. Serum chromium was measured using inductive couple plasma emission spectrometer.
Results:
Serum chromium levels of women with GDM, 1.59+/-0.02 ng/ml (range: 0.16-4.0 ng/ml) were lower than in controls (4.58+/-0.62 ng/ml; range 0.82-5.33 ng/ml) (P < 0.001). However, there were no significant differences among cases and controls when subdivided by parity.
Conclusions:
Women with GDM from a South Indian city had lower levels of serum chromium compared to pregnant women without GDM. Studies may be done whether chromium supplementation is useful in this group of women.
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