Why the study?
Does maternal diabetes alter maternal arterial stiffness and fetal cardiovascular physiology compared to healthy pregnancies?
Population
66 pregnant women aged 18-40 years at 20-28 weeks' gestation, including 43 with diabetes and 23 healthy…
Comparison
Maternal diabetes (pregestational or gestational) vs Healthy pregnant controls without diabetes
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Maternal diabetes-associated stiffness and fetal changes require longitudinal validation; leaves open clinical relevance and causality.
Does maternal diabetes alter maternal arterial stiffness and fetal cardiovascular physiology compared to healthy pregnancies?
Maternal diabetes is associated with increased maternal arterial stiffness and altered fetal myocardial function, though these changes appear to be independent responses to abnormal glucose metabolism rather than directly correlated.
Moodley et al. (2017) studied this question.
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