Kazuma Tagami, Noriyuki Iwama, Hirotaka Hamada, Hasumi Tomita, Rie Kudo, Natsumi Kumagai, Hongxin Wang, Seiya Izumi, Zen Watanabe, Mami Ishikuro, Taku Obara, Nozomi Tatsuta, Hirohito Metoki, Chiharu Ota, Takashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Kuriyama, Takahiro Arima, Nobuo Yaegashi, Masatoshi Saito
AIMS: This study aimed to investigate the association of maternal birth weight (MBW) with early and late gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). METHODS: A total of 69318 pregnant Japanese women were included in this birth cohort study. The associations between maternal birth weight and early gestational diabetes mellitus (diagnosed at <24 gestational weeks) and late GDM (diagnosed at ≥24 gestational weeks) were investigated using a multinomial logistic regression model, with an maternal birth weight of 3000-3499 g as the reference category...
February 23, 2024: Journal of Diabetes Investigation