Comment on: Rowan et al. Metformin in Gestational Diabetes: The Offspring Follow-Up (MiG TOFU): Body Composition at 2 Years of Age. Diabetes Care 2011;34:2279-2284 | Zendy

Sue Mei Lau | Zendy

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Comment on: Rowan et al. Metformin in Gestational Diabetes: The Offspring Follow-Up (MiG TOFU): Body Composition at 2 Years of Age. Diabetes Care 2011;34:2279-2284

Author(s) -

Sue Mei Lau

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc11-2241

Subject(s) - medicine , offspring , metformin , gestational diabetes , diabetes mellitus , rowan , endocrinology , body mass index , pregnancy , gestation , ecology , genetics , biology

The recent article by Rowan et al. (1) reports decreased biceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses in the 2-year-old offspring of women randomized to receive metformin rather than insulin treatment for their gestational diabetes. Body fat percentage, measured by bioimpedance and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, was similar in the two groups, suggesting that metformin treatment is associated with a more metabolically favorable distribution of body fat in the offspring, while not changing …

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