Back to Search
Start Over
Serum levels of neopterin in gestational diabetes mellitus: the relationship with Apgar scores
- Source :
- Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 292:103-109
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
-
Abstract
- This study was designed to evaluate neopterin levels and low Apgar scores in pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) vs. normal control pregnancies.We carried out a cross-sectional study by enrolling 81 pregnant women with GDM and 38 pregnant women without GDM.Maternal and cord blood neopterin levels were higher in women with GDM. There was a significant positive association between fasting blood glucose levels and maternal serum neopterin levels. The results of 50-g oral glucose challenge tests revealed a correlation between maternal and cord neopterin levels. Pregnancies complicated by GDM exhibited lower fetal Apgar scores than those of control subjects. The levels of cord blood neopterin were inversely correlated with an fetal Apgar score of 1 min in patients with GDM.Patients with GDM had higher maternal and cord blood neopterin levels, and the cord blood neopterin levels are inversely associated with lower Apgar scores in women with GDM. The neopterin levels might be potential predictors of low fetal Apgar scores in women with GDM.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system diseases
Neopterin
chemistry.chemical_compound
Pregnancy
immune system diseases
Humans
Medicine
Normal control
reproductive and urinary physiology
business.industry
Obstetrics
Infant, Newborn
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Obstetrics and Gynecology
General Medicine
Glucose Tolerance Test
Fetal Blood
medicine.disease
female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
Gestational diabetes
Diabetes, Gestational
Cross-Sectional Studies
chemistry
Apgar Score
Female
Apgar score
Low APGAR scores
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320711 and 09320067
- Volume :
- 292
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....387bc9f66a38d76191519a26e84687b1