Blood Cell Parameters From Early to Middle Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

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CONTEXT: Chronic low-grade inflammation may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). However, prospective studies on the relations of inflammatory blood cell parameters during pregnancy with GDM are lacking.

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively investigate the associations of inflammatory blood cell parameters in both early and middle pregnancy, and their change patterns from early to middle pregnancy, with GDM risk.

METHODS: We used data from the Tongji-Shuangliu Birth Cohort. Inflammatory blood cell parameters (white blood cells [WBC], neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio [NLR], and platelets) were assayed before 15 weeks and between 16 and 28 weeks of gestational age. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the associations between inflammatory blood cell parameters and GDM.

RESULTS: Of the 6354 pregnant women, 445 were diagnosed with GDM. After adjustment for potential confounders, WBC, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, and NLR in early pregnancy were positively associated with GDM risk (odds ratios [95% CI] for extreme-quartile comparison were 2.38 [1.76-3.20], 2.47 [1.82-3.36], 1.40 [1.06-1.85], 1.69 [1.27-2.24], and 1.51 [1.12-2.02], respectively, all P for trend ≤ .010). Similarly, higher levels of WBC, neutrophils, monocytes, and NLR in middle pregnancy were associated with increased risk of GDM (all P for trend ≤ .014). Stable high levels (≥ median in both early and middle pregnancy) of WBC, neutrophils, monocytes, and NLR were positively associated with GDM risk (all P ≤ .001).

CONCLUSION: Increased WBC, neutrophils, monocytes, and NLR in both early and middle pregnancy and their stable high levels from early to middle pregnancy were associated with higher GDM risk, highlighting that they might be clinically relevant for identifying individuals at high risk for GDM.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:108

Enthalten in:

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 108(2023), 12 vom: 17. Nov., Seite e1702-e1711

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ye, Yi-Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xue [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Linjing [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Yuwei [VerfasserIn]
Ouyang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yanqin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Peishan [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yayi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yi-Xin [VerfasserIn]
Song, Xingyue [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Shijiao [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Chuanzhu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Pan, An [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Xiong-Fei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood Glucose
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Inflammation
Journal Article
Longitudinal association
Pregnancy

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Date Completed 20.11.2023

Date Revised 25.11.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1210/clinem/dgad336

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357818024