title: Vitamin D Status in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus during Pregnancy and Postpartum.
abstract: Of many vitamin D extraskeletal functions, its modulatory role in insulin secretion and action is especially relevant for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The aims of the present study were to determine midgestational and early postpartum vitamin D status in pregnant women with and without GDM and to describe the relationship between midgestational and postpartum vitamin D status and parallel changes of glucose tolerance. A total of 76 pregnant women (47 GDM and 29 healthy controls) were included in the study. Plasma levels of 25(OH)D were measured using an enzyme immunoassay. Vitamin D was not significantly decreased in GDM compared to controls during pregnancy; however, both groups of pregnant women exhibited high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency. Prevalence of postpartum 25(OH)D deficiency in post-GDM women remained significantly higher and their postpartum 25(OH)D levels were significantly lower compared to non-GDM counterparts. Finally, based on the oGTT repeated early postpartum persistent glucose abnormality was ascertained in 15% of post-GDM women; however, neither midgestational nor postpartum 25(OH)D levels significantly differed between subjects with GDM history and persistent postpartum glucose intolerance and those with normal glucose tolerance after delivery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic ; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pleskačová
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Vendula
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bartáková
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Lukáš
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pácal
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Katarína
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4796-5152
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuricová
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Brno, Jihlavská 20, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bělobrádková
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomandl
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Kateřina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaňková
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D016640:Diabetes, Gestational / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000097:blood*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D