Pregnant women with impaired tolerance to an oral glucose load in the afternoon: evidence suggesting that they behave metabolically as patients with gestational diabetes

Article Abstract:

Pregnant women with impaired glucose tolerance in the afternoon may have a metabolic abnormality similar to gestational diabetes. Researchers gave glucose tolerance tests at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 77 pregnant women with a normal risk of diabetes, 75 with an increased risk and 12 with gestational diabetes. Many of the women with increased risk had higher glucose values in the afternoon than in the morning. Women with increased risk who had abnormal glucose tolerance in the afternoon became hyperglycemic sometime during the day and were more likely to have high birth weight infants.

Circadian rhythms, Diabetes in pregnancy, Gestational diabetes

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Effects of oral contraceptives on hemostasis and thrombosis

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Oral contraceptives may cause activated protein C resistance, which could explain why they increase the risk of abnormal blood clotting. Activated protein C resistance increases the rate of blood clotting. Third-generation oral contraceptives caused greater amounts of activated protein C resistance compared to second-generation contraceptives.

Statistical Data Included, Complications and side effects, Oral contraceptives, Protein C

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Coagulation activation markers do not correlate with the clinical risk of thrombosis in pregnant women

Article Abstract:

Pregnant women with excessive levels of coagulation activation markers in their blood do not necessarily have abnormal blood clotting. In a study of 261 pregnant women, those with risk factors for abnormal blood clotting often had normal levels and those with no risk factors often had high levels.

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