title: The metabolic profile of glucose tolerant women who have had large for gestational age babies.
abstract: The possibility has been raised that women who have had large for gestational age infants, while glucose tolerant during pregnancy by conventional testing, may still have a subtle abnormality of carbohydrate metabolism. We have examined, some time after the completion of a pregnancy, the fasting levels of glucose, insulin and lipids in a group of women, glucose tolerant during pregnancy, who had a large for gestational age infant compared to a very carefully matched control group of women who had an appropriate for gestational age infant. No significant differences were found. These findings suggest that women who have a large for gestational age infant do so for a variety of reasons not related to maternal carbohydrate metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Illawarra Area Health Service, New South Wales.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moses
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodgers
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Calvert
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D005215:Fasting; D005260:Female; D005320:Fetal Macrosomia; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D009035:Mothers; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin