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Commentary: Short Body Height and Pre-pregnancy Overweight for Increased Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
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Reviewed by: Claudio Daniel Gonzalez, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno (CEMIC), Argentina
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Diabetes, a section of the journal Frontiers in Endocrinology
Li J et al conduct a sufficiently large cohort study and show that the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is inversely correlated with the height of the pregnant women [1]. This association is seen among Asians and may not warrant biological plausibility for using short stature as screening criteria due to several reasons [2]
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Reviewed by: Claudio Daniel Gonzalez, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno (CEMIC), Argentina. 1 Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 2 Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 3 Faculty of medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia Specialty section: This article was submitted to Diabetes, a section of the journal Frontiers in Endocrinology Short Body Height and Pre-pregnancy Overweight for Increased Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
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