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| Title |
Sex hormone binding globulin as a valuable biochemical marker in predicting gestational diabetes mellitus
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| Published in |
BMC Women's Health, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12905-017-0373-3 |
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| Authors |
Manal Abdalla Tawfeek, Eman Mohamad Alfadhli, Abdulfatah Marawan Alayoubi, Hesham Ahmad El-Beshbishy, Fawzia Ahmad Habib |
| Abstract |
Circulating Sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels are inversely associated with insulin resistance. This study was conducted to compare maternal serum SHBG level between pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance and those with gestational diabetes (GDM) and to investigate the roll of SHBG in GDM diagnosis. This was a case controlled study of 90 pregnant women, 45 women with GDM and 45 matched controls, attending obstetrics clinic at Ohud Hospital, Madina, Saudi Arabia between April 2014 and March 2015. Measurement of serum SHBG levels by Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method were done between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation. The best cut-off point of SHBG to diagnose GDM was calculated in receiver operating characteristic curve. Compared with the control group, SHBG concentrations were significantly lower in the GDM group; median 23 nmol/L (18-30) vs. 78 nmol/L (65-96), p < 0.001). The cut off value 50 nmol/L of the SHBG had 90% sensitivity and 96% specificity to diagnose GDM. Patients with GDM have lower circulating levels of SHBG than normal glucose tolerance pregnant women. Circulating concentrations of SHBG represent a potentially useful new biomarker for prediction of risk of GDM beyond the currently established clinical and demographic risk factors. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 50 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 16% |
| Unknown | 14 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 36% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 17 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2017.
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#4,209,783
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Outputs from BMC Women's Health
#475
of 1,840 outputs
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#75,680
of 307,900 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Women's Health
#8
of 20 outputs
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