Giuseppe Seghieri1, Graziano Di Cianni2, Elisa Gualdani3, Alessandra De Bellis4, Flavia Franconi5, Paolo Francesconi3. 1. Epidemiology Unit, Regional Health Agency of Tuscany, Via Pietro Dazzi 1, 50141, Florence, Italy. gseghier@tin.it. 2. Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Unit, Health Local Unit North-West Tuscany, Livorno, Italy. 3. Epidemiology Unit, Regional Health Agency of Tuscany, Via Pietro Dazzi 1, 50141, Florence, Italy. 4. Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Unit, "San Giovanni di Dio Hospital", Florence, Italy. 5. Laboratorio Nazionale di Farmacologia e Medicina di Genere, Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture Biosistemi, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Abstract
AIMS: To investigate whether fetal sex affects the impact of classical GDM risk factors on the diagnosis of gestational diabetes (GDM) as well as on related adverse pregnancy outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective observational study concerned 206,917 singleton live births born to 170,126 women aged 15-45 over the years 2010-2018 in Tuscany, Italy. GDM was identified by administrative data-sources in 21,613 pregnancies (10.5%) by assessing, through multiple logistic models, whether fetal sex modified the risk of GDM driven by maternal risk factors, and whether it modified the risk of adverse outcomes such as prematurity (birth ≤ 37th gestational week), large for gestational age (LGA), unplanned caesarean sections, or 5-min-Apgar-index ≤ 7 in pregnancies with GDM. RESULTS: GDM was diagnosed in 21,613 pregnancies (10.5%). Male fetal sex predicted a higher adjusted risk of GDM: OR = 1.05(95% CI: 1.01-1.07); p < 0.0009. In pregnancies with female sex, pre-pregnancy obesity amplified the risk of GDM: OR = 1.09(95% CI: 1.01-1.19); p = 0.04. In pregnancies with GDM, carrying a female fetus increased the risk of LGA associated with pregestational obesity OR = 1.45(95% CI: 1.15-1.81); p = 0.001, and in primiparous pregnancies, it protected mothers from the risk of unplanned caesarean sections OR = 0.80(95%CI: 0.67-0.92); p = 0.001. CONCLUSIONS: While male fetal sex is associated with rise in the risk of GDM, giving birth to a girl amplifies the excess GDM risk driven by pregestational obesity, thus increasing the risk of LGA in pregnancies with GDM. Additionally, female fetal sex in pregnancies with GDM seems to protect from the risk of unplanned caesarean sections in primiparous pregnancies.
AIMS: To investigate whether fetal sex affects the impact of classical GDM risk factors on the diagnosis of gestational diabetes (GDM) as well as on related adverse pregnancy outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective observational study concerned 206,917 singleton live births born to 170,126 women aged 15-45 over the years 2010-2018 in Tuscany, Italy. GDM was identified by administrative data-sources in 21,613 pregnancies (10.5%) by assessing, through multiple logistic models, whether fetal sex modified the risk of GDM driven by maternal risk factors, and whether it modified the risk of adverse outcomes such as prematurity (birth ≤ 37th gestational week), large for gestational age (LGA), unplanned caesarean sections, or 5-min-Apgar-index ≤ 7 in pregnancies with GDM. RESULTS: GDM was diagnosed in 21,613 pregnancies (10.5%). Male fetal sex predicted a higher adjusted risk of GDM: OR = 1.05(95% CI: 1.01-1.07); p < 0.0009. In pregnancies with female sex, pre-pregnancy obesity amplified the risk of GDM: OR = 1.09(95% CI: 1.01-1.19); p = 0.04. In pregnancies with GDM, carrying a female fetus increased the risk of LGA associated with pregestational obesity OR = 1.45(95% CI: 1.15-1.81); p = 0.001, and in primiparous pregnancies, it protected mothers from the risk of unplanned caesarean sections OR = 0.80(95%CI: 0.67-0.92); p = 0.001. CONCLUSIONS: While male fetal sex is associated with rise in the risk of GDM, giving birth to a girl amplifies the excess GDM risk driven by pregestational obesity, thus increasing the risk of LGA in pregnancies with GDM. Additionally, female fetal sex in pregnancies with GDM seems to protect from the risk of unplanned caesarean sections in primiparous pregnancies.
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