Fetal Sex and Maternal Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The Impact of Having a Boy | Zendy

Ravi Retnakaran | Zendy; Caroline K. Kramer | Zendy; Ye Rim Chang | Zendy; Simone Kew | Zendy; Anthony J. Hanley | Zendy; Philip W. Connelly | Zendy; Mathew Sermer | Zendy; Bernard Zinman | Zendy

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Fetal Sex and Maternal Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The Impact of Having a Boy

Author(s) -

Ravi Retnakaran,

Caroline K. Kramer,

Ye Rim Chang,

Simone Kew,

Anthony J. Hanley,

Philip W. Connelly,

Mathew Sermer,

Bernard Zinman

Publication year - 2015

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/dc14-2551

Subject(s) - medicine , gestational diabetes , diabetes mellitus , fetus , obstetrics , pregnancy , gestation , endocrinology , genetics , biology

Retrospective analyses of perinatal databases have raised the intriguing possibility of an increased risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in women carrying a male fetus, but it has been unclear if this was a spurious association. We thus sought to evaluate the relationship between fetal sex and maternal glucose metabolism in a well-characterized cohort of women reflecting the full spectrum of gestational glucose tolerance from normal to mildly abnormal to GDM.

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