Comment on: Au et al. Body Composition Is Normal in Term Infants Born to Mothers With Well-Controlled Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2013;36:562–564 | Zendy

Aidan McElduff | Zendy

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Comment on: Au et al. Body Composition Is Normal in Term Infants Born to Mothers With Well-Controlled Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2013;36:562–564

Author(s) -

Aidan McElduff

Publication year - 2013

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/dc13-0834

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , gestational diabetes , term (time) , pediatrics , gestation , endocrinology , pregnancy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , genetics

The comment letter by McElduff (1) acknowledges that our study (2) is an excellent example of the research needed to determine optimal glycemic targets for mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The primary objective of our study was to describe the body composition at birth of infants born to mothers with GDM compared with infants born to mothers with normal glucose tolerance using air-displacement plethysomography (2). Body composition at birth, measured accurately by air-displacement plethysomography, is a more sensitive marker of the intrauterine environment than weight alone, and includes estimates of fat mass and fat-free mass.To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that infant body composition …

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