hrp0089rfc3.5 | Diabetes and Insulin 1 | ESPE2018

Recent Secular Change in Pre- and Postnatal Growth and Adiposity in Infants of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes

Olga Laurentya , Prentice Philippa , Hughes Ieuan , Acerini Carlo , Ong Ken , Dunger David

Objective: Typically, infants born to mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (IOGDM) have greater risks for macrosomia, later obesity and metabolic diseases. However, we have noticed that birth weights of IOGDM have reduced over the last decade even with uniform application of the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group’s (IADPSG) consensus definition. We therefore compared infancy growth outcomes from two IOGDM cohorts born during non-overlapp...