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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2023 Dec;63(6):825-828.
doi: 10.1111/ajo.13739. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

Metformin in Gestational Diabetes The Offspring Follow Up (MiGTOFU): Associations between maternal characteristics and size and adiposity of boys and girls at nine years

Janet Alison Rowan  1 , Elaine Carolyn Rush  2 , Lindsay Dudley Plank  3
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Metformin in Gestational Diabetes The Offspring Follow Up (MiGTOFU): Associations between maternal characteristics and size and adiposity of boys and girls at nine years

Janet Alison Rowan et al. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

Data from 98 women recruited in the Metformin in Gestational Diabetes trial and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry studies of their children at nine years were analysed to investigate associations between maternal measures during pregnancy and their children's size and adiposity. Mothers of boys (n = 56) and girls (n = 42) had been randomised to metformin or insulin treatment at 30.1 ± 2.8 and 29.3 ± 4.1 weeks gestation, respectively. In boys, fat-free mass indexed to height squared was associated with maternal weight, body mass index, maternal glycaemia and metformin treatment. In boys and girls, fat mass indexed to height squared was associated with maternal glycaemia measures before gestational diabetes treatment.

Keywords: child adiposity; gestational diabetes; maternal glycaemia; metformin.

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