The risk of gestational diabetes depends on how much vitamin D is lacking

  A recent study published in "Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism" showed that a pregnant woman's vitamin D deficiency in the early stages of pregnancy increases her risk of gestational diabetes (GDM). Richard M. Fairbanks of Indiana University's Fairbanks School of Public Health, Jin Xia and colleagues used data from FetalGrowthStudies-SingletonCohort to prospectively study early pregnancy The relationship between vitamin D status and GDM risk in the mid-term.

  Researchers reported plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, D3, and vitamins from 107 GDM pregnant women and 214 control participants at 10-14, 15-26, 23-31, 33-39 weeks of pregnancy. I measured the level of D binding protein. The researchers observed that the threshold affects the relationship between vitamin D biomarkers and GDM risk. At 10-14 weeks of pregnancy, vitamin D deficiency (u003c50nmol/L) is associated with a 2.82-fold increase in GDM risk. In women with persistent vitamin D deficiency at 10-14 weeks of gestation and 15-26 weeks of gestation, the risk of GDM is 4.46 times that of women who have not been deficient in long-term vitamin D.