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- Title
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and High Triglyceride Levels Mediate the Association between Pre-Pregnancy Overweight/Obesity and Macrosomia: A Prospective Cohort Study in Central China.
- Authors
Song, Xinli; Chen, Letao; Zhang, Senmao; Liu, Yiping; Wei, Jianhui; Wang, Tingting; Qin, Jiabi
- Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the link between pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity and risk of macrosomia is mediated by both gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and high maternal triglyceride (mTG) levels. This prospective study finally included 29,415 singleton term pregnancies. The outcome of interest was macrosomia (≥4000 g). High mTG levels were denoted as values ≥90th percentile. GDM was diagnosed using a standard 75 g 2 h oral glucose tolerance test. The mediation analysis was conducted using log-binomial regression while controlling for maternal age, education, parity, gestational weight gain, gestational hypertension, smoking, drinking and infant sex. Overall, 15.9% of pregnant women were diagnosed with GDM, and 4.3% were macrosomia. Mediation analysis suggested that overweight had a total effect of 0.009 (95% CI, 0.006–0.013) on macrosomia, with a direct effect of 0.008 (95% CI, 0.004–0.012) and an indirect effect of 0.001 (95% CI, 0.001–0.002), with an estimated proportion of 11.1% mediated by GDM and high mTG levels together. Furthermore, we also discovered a total effect of obesity on macrosomia of 0.038 (95% CI, 0.030–0.047), consisting of a direct effect of 0.037 (95% CI, 0.028–0.045) and an indirect effect of 0.002 (95% CI, 0.001–0.002), with an estimated proportion of 5.3% mediated by GDM and high mTG levels combined. Both GDM and high mTG levels enhanced the risk of macrosomia independently and served as significant mediators in the relationship between pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity and macrosomia.
- Subjects
CHINA; OBESITY complications; FETAL macrosomia; TRIGLYCERIDES; WEIGHT gain in pregnancy; HYPERTENSION; CONFIDENCE intervals; REGRESSION analysis; RISK assessment; PREGNANCY outcomes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; FACTOR analysis; MATERNAL age; PARITY (Obstetrics); ALCOHOL drinking; PREGNANCY complications; GESTATIONAL diabetes; SMOKING; PRECONCEPTION care; LONGITUDINAL method; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Nutrients, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 16, p3347
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu14163347