Biomarkers for Prediction of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
A special issue of Reproductive Medicine (ISSN 2673-3897).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 4663
Special Issue Editors
Interests: prenatal diagnosis; pregnancy; placenta; biochemical and biophysical markers of pregnancy complications; placental protein 13 (PP13); pro- and antiangiogenic markers of preeclampsia; preeclampsia; biophysical markers of pregnancy complications; fetal growth restriction; preterm delivery; gestational diabetes (GDM); gene polymorphisms; risk assessment of pregnancy complications in twin pregnancy; aspirin; PP13 and other drugs for fighting preeclampsia; prevention and treatment of pregnancy complications; fetal cell free DNA in maternal blood; screening and risk assessment algorithms; microbiome in health and diseases; obesity in pregnancy and other life complications; women’s health
Interests: obstetrics and gynecology; fetal growth restriction; obstetric delivery; prenatal diagnosis and screening; gestational diabetes—diagnosis, treatment and prevention; diabetes hypertension; diabetes mellitus; gynecological surgery; reproductive medicine; maternal and fetal medicine; COVID-19 in pregnant women; anti-COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women; microRNA markers in pregnancy; microbiome and metabolites in pregnancy; pre- and postpregnancy clinics
Interests: metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD); inflammatory liver disease; biomarkers; liver fibrosis; macrophages
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Interests: prenatal diagnosis; trisomies and atypical chromosomes; medical genetics; molecular methods of gene-based disorders; circulating fetal cells in maternal blood; cell-free fetal DNA; genetic screening; karyotyping; whole genome sequencing; whole exome sequencing; gene markers; polymorphisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), the most common metabolic disorder in pregnancy, is associated with glucose intolerance in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, leading to hyperglycemia. Driven by maternal obesity, physical inactivity, and increased maternal age, GDM increases the risk of severe complications, including birth trauma, shoulder dystocia, macrosomia, neonatal hypoglycemia and hyperbilirubinemia, and stillbirth. GDM patients have a significantly increased lifetime risk for type 2 diabetes, while their offspring are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, obesity, metabolic, and cardiovascular disease later in life. In the past decade, early effective methods in GDM prevention were developed to decrease its prevalence and severity. We focus on GDM biomarkers for early prediction to improve treatment and prevention. Such markers could be proteins, microRNAs, microbiome, and metabolites, providing accurate GDM5 screening, whether with known underlying pathological mechanisms or with proven prediction of GDM progression, potentially linked to placental trophoblasts.
Dr. Hamutal Meiri
Prof. Dr. Eran Hadar
Prof. Dr. Henning Gronbaek
Prof. Dr. Ida Vogel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
- maternal serum biomarkers
- prenatal diagnosis of GDM
- prediction of GDM
- prevention of GDM
- first trimester
- obesity
- hyperglycemia
- singleton and twin pregnancy
- mathematical models and risk assessment
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