Birth outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA study

E Cheng; DK Longmore; F Barzi; ELM Barr; IL Lee; C Whitbread; JA Boyle; J Oats; C Connors; HD McIntyre; M Kirkwood; K Dempsey; X Zhang; S Thomas; D Williams; P Zimmet; ADH Brown; JE Shaw; LJ Maple-Brown

Journal article

Birth outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA study

E Cheng, DK Longmore, F Barzi, ELM Barr, IL Lee, C Whitbread, JA Boyle, J Oats, C Connors, HD McIntyre, M Kirkwood, K Dempsey, X Zhang, S Thomas, D Williams, P Zimmet, ADH Brown, JE Shaw, LJ Maple-Brown

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107876

Abstract

Aims: To assess outcomes of women in the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) cohort with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) managed by lifestyle modification compared with women without hyperglycaemia in pregnancy. Methods: Indigenous (n = 97) and Europid (n = 113) women managed by lifestyle modification were compared to women without hyperglycaemia (n = 235). Multivariate linear and logistic regressions assessed whether GDM-lifestyle women had poorer outcomes compared to women without hyperglycaemia. Results: Women with GDM-lifestyle had higher body mass index and lower gestational weight gain than women without hyperglycaemia. On univariate analysis, ges..

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Danielle Longmore Author

I-Lynn Lee Author

Jeremy Oats Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC Partnership Project Grant #1032116, NHMRC #1078333). DKL was supported by an NHMRC scholarship (#1038372); ELMB was supported by a National Heart Foundation post-doctoral fellowship (#101291); ILL was supported by Australian Postgraduate award and Menzies scholarship; JAB was supported by NHMRC Career Development Fellowship; ADHB was supported by a NHMRC Fellowship (#1137563) and a Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship; JES was supported by NHMRC Fellowship (#1079438); LJMB was supported by NHMRC Fellowship (#605837) and NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (#1078477). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the NHMRC.