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. 2023 Jan 24:14:1054153.
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1054153. eCollection 2023.

Longer physical exercise duration prevents abnormal fasting plasma glucose occurrences in the third trimester: Findings from a cohort of women with gestational diabetes mellitus in Shanghai

Rui Zhang  1 , Xiangjin Gao  2 , Ting Sun  3 , Huan Li  3 , Qing Yang  3 , Bin Li  1 , Dongshan Zhu  4 , Ruiping Wang  1   2
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Longer physical exercise duration prevents abnormal fasting plasma glucose occurrences in the third trimester: Findings from a cohort of women with gestational diabetes mellitus in Shanghai

Rui Zhang et al. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between daily physical exercise (PE) duration and frequency of abnormal plasma glucose (PG) times both during fasting and 2 h after a standard diet in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Methods: We established a cohort involving 878 GDM women. GDM was confirmed by a diagnostic 75-g oral glucose tolerance test. Information was extracted from the delivery records and antenatal checkup forms. Physical exercise information was collected through a questionnaire.

Results: Over 80% of GDM women were under 35 years old. An abnormal fasting PG with ≥1 occurrence presented in 742/878 (84.51%), and the abnormal PG 2 h after standard diet with ≥1 occurrence presented in 634/878 (72.21%). Compared to GDM women with ≥4 occurrences of abnormal fasting PG, GDM women with 0 occurrences (odds ratio (OR) = 2.56), one occurrence (OR = 1.94), two occurrences (OR = 2.29), and three occurrences (OR = 2.16) had a higher proportion of PE duration being in the 45-60-min/day group than those in the <45-min/day group, and GDM women also had a higher proportion of PE during being in the 61-90- and >90-min/day group than those in the <45-min/day group. However, the duration of PE was not associated to the number of abnormal PG occurrences 2-h after the standard diet.

Conclusion: Moderate-intensity PE duration in GDM women was negatively associated with the number of abnormal fasting PG occurrences but not with the number of PG occurrences 2 h after the standard diet.

Keywords: 2-h plasma glucose; abnormal plasma glucose; fasting plasma glucose; gestational diabetes mellitus; physical exercise duration.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Plasma glucose levels both in fasting and 2 h after diet in GDM women with different levels of daily moderate-intensity physical exercise times at each scheduled antenatal checkup (n = 878).
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