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Exercise intervention during pregnancy can be used to manage weight gain and improve pregnancy outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, October 2015
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Title
Exercise intervention during pregnancy can be used to manage weight gain and improve pregnancy outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0682-1
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Authors

Chen Wang, Weiwei Zhu, Yumei Wei, Hui Feng, Rina Su, Huixia Yang

Abstract

The study aimed to evaluate whether exercise intervention can be applied to pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) for controlling gestational weight gain (GWG) and combating GDM-related outcomes. Retrospective six months analysis of 14,168 single pregnant women without diabetes from 15 hospitals in Beijing in 2013. Each participant's demographic data, interventions condition and medical information were collected individually by questionnaires and relying on medical records. The level of statistical significance was set equal to 0.05. 2750 (19.4 %) pregnant women were diagnosed with GDM, 74.9 % of them received exercise intervention during pregnancy, and the starting time was 25.8 ± 3.7 gestational weeks. Women with GDM with exercise intervention (GDM-E) had the lowest BMI increase during late and mid-pregnancy than women with GDM without exercise intervention (GDM-nE) (2.05 ± 1.32 kg/m(2) vs. 2.40 ± 1.30 kg/m(2), p < 0.01) and non-GDM women (2.05 ± 1.32 kg/m(2) vs. 2.77 ± 1.21 kg/m(2), p < 0.01). Moreover, GDM-E group experienced a significantly lower risk of preterm birth (5.58 % vs. 7.98 %, p < 0.001), low birth weight (1.03 % vs. 2.06 %, p < 0.001) and macrosomia (9.51 % vs. 11.18 %, p > 0.05) than GDM-nE group. After including dietary factors in the analysis, women with GDM without either dietary or exercise intervention (GDM-nDnE) had the highest risk of preterm birth(OR = 1.64, 95 % CI, 1.14-2.36), while women with GDM with dietary intervention only (GDM-DnE) had the highest risk of low birth weight (OR = 3.10, 95 % CI, 1.23-7.81). However, women with GDM with both dietary and exercise intervention had the lowest rate of macrosomia. Exercise intervention is a suitable non-invasive therapeutic option that can be readily applied to manage weight gain and improve pregnancy outcomes in women with GDM.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 168 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 37 22%
Student > Master 31 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Researcher 10 6%
Other 24 14%
Unknown 41 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 24%
Sports and Recreations 9 5%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Other 13 8%
Unknown 46 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 24 October 2016.
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#2,465,232
of 22,830,751 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#677
of 4,191 outputs
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#36,434
of 279,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#19
of 103 outputs
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