Gestational Diabetes and Nutritional Recommendations
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Diabetes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 January 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diabetes; obesity; gestational diabetes; diabetes in pregnancy; obesity in pregnancy
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Dear Colleagues,
Proper nutrition is pivotal to ensuring a successful pregnancy outcome through an appropriate increase in body weight to meet maternal energy requirements and provide the fetus with the nutrients it needs to develop properly.
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) develops if beta cell secretion is not enough to compensate for peripheral insulin resistance, and insulin resistance associated with prepregnancy diabetes is apparent from the two- to three-fold-higher insulin requirements in late pregnancy. In pregnancy complicated by GDM, maternal hyperglycemia is known to raise the risk of morbidity for the fetus and newborn due to maternal-to-fetal hyperinsulinemia. The transplacental flux of glucose causes fetal hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, resulting in accelerated fetal growth and macrosomia, and neonatal hypoglycemia.
The goals of nutritional therapy in pregnancies complicated by GDM are to provide the necessary energy and nutrients for the normal development of the placenta and fetus while minimizing the complications of pregnancy and optimizing blood sugar control to achieve the best possible perinatal outcome. Another aim is to help women adopt a healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease throughout their lives.
In this frame, authors are invited to contribute original research, in vitro, and analytical studies on animals and humans with novel results. Narrative systematic reviews or meta-analyses will also be accepted.
Dr. Annunziata Lapolla
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pregnancy
- gestational diabetes
- nutrition
- maternal outcomes
- fetal outcomes
