Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare maternal and neonatal outcomes between Israeli Arab and Jewish women with GDM not controlled with lifestyle modification.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women with GDM who were not controlled with lifestyle modification and were followed and gave birth in a university affiliated medical center between 2005 and 2015.Results: The study included 343 women, 45 (11.8%) of t...

Background: Previous studies evaluating the association between falling insulin requirements (FIR) during late pregnancy and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes yielded controversial results.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of data collected from women delivering at Shamir Medical Center (a referral university-affiliated facility in central Israel), between 2008–2018. The percent of FIR was calculated by dividing the remaind...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of pre-gestational body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) controlled with medication.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women with singleton pregnancies, diagnosed with GDM and treated with glucose lowering agents that were followed and gave birth between 2005–2015 in the Assaf Haro...