Diabetes Care
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Diabetes Care 31:e32 2008
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-0047
© 2008 by the American Diabetes Association
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Purchase Article
Right arrow View Shopping Cart
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Volpe, L.
Right arrow Articles by Di Cianni, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Volpe, L.
Right arrow Articles by Di Cianni, G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Online Letters: Observations

Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Women With Previous Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Laura Volpe, MD1, Ilaria Cuccuru, MD1, Cristina Lencioni, MD1, Vinicio Napoli, MD2, Alessandra Ghio, MD1, Carmen Fotino, PHS1, Alessandra Bertolotto, MD1, Giuseppe Penno, MD1, Luca Benzi, MD1, Stefano Del Prato, MD1 and Graziano Di Cianni, MD1

1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
2 Department of Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Corresponding author: Dr. Graziano Di Cianni, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ospedale di Cisanello, Via Paradisa, 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: dicianni@immr.med.unipi.it

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To determine if women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM), a population at high risk for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome (1), have signs of subclinical atherosclerosis, we measured carotid intimal-medial thickness (IMT) and multiple cardiovascular risk factors in 28 women with and 24 without pGDM (control group) 2 years after delivery. A 75-g 2-h oral glucose tolerance test was performed for assessment of glucose tolerance, area under the glucose curve (AUCgluc), insulin sensitivity index, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), lipid profile, oxidized LDL (oxLDL), C-reactive protein (CRP), adiponectin, and fibrinogen. Family history, anthropometric parameters, and blood pressure were recorded. IMT was measured at four . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Diabetes Diabetes Care Clinical Diabetes Diabetes Spectrum
Copyright © 2008 by the American Diabetes Association.