{"id":4439,"date":"2015-11-02T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:22:48","slug":"4439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/4439\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomach fat increases risk of diabetes during pregnancy<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women with a high level of abdominal fat during the first trimester of pregnancy have a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes later on during pregnancy, according to a new study. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers measured the abdominal fat of 485 women during the end of their first trimester (11 &#8211; 14 weeks), and later measured their oral glucose tolerance (24 &#8211; 28 weeks), an indicator of diabetes. The authors adjusted the results to account for maternal age, ethnicity, family history of diabetes, and BMI.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/early\/2015\/10\/29\/dc15-2027.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Diabetes Care\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Joel G. Ray,\u00a0Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Michael\u2019s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women with a high level of abdominal fat during the first trimester of pregnancy have a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes later on during pregnancy, according to a new study. Researchers measured the abdominal fat of 485 women during the end of their first trimester (11 &#8211; 14 weeks), and later measured their oral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,50,1379,476],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4DqbN-4439","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}