Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and sleep disorders are frequent in pregnancy and both are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage, prematurity, macrosomia and pre-eclampsia. Researchers demonstrates a connection between sleep disorders, depression, insulin resistance and high blood pressure, and studies evaluating sleep behavior in GDM are needed. Objectives: Evaluate sleep qualit...
BACKGROUND: Sleep abnormalities are frequent in patients with endocrine metabolic disorders (EMD) such as arterial hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Adiponectin is a peptide largely secreted by adipocytes and has various properties e.g. anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiatherogenic, pro-angiogenic, vasoprotective and insulin-sensitizing. Adiponectin inversely relates to body weight and when its concentratio...
The relationship between maternal blood glucose and macrossomia has being an issue of controversy among different studies. In spite of the evidences that a linear and statistical significant association between maternal blood glucose and macrossomia do exists, no threshold glucose value has being identified as a major risk of this endpoint when using the 75g-OGTT in pregnancy. There are a lack of studies of sta...