Metabolites in Early‐Mid Pregnancy Mediate the Association Between Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Suna Wang, Yanwei Zheng, Mingjuan Luo, Wei Chen, Jingyi Guo, Rongzhen Jiang, Xiangtian Yu
TL;DR
The study finds that certain metabolites during early pregnancy link higher pre-pregnancy BMI to increased gestational diabetes risk.
Contribution
Identifies specific metabolites mediating the BMI-GDM relationship and validates their role during glucose testing.
Findings
Eight metabolites were linked to both pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational diabetes risk.
Two latent metabolite clusters explained 24.0% and 19.1% of the BMI-GDM association.
Branched-chain amino acids showed significant mediation during glucose tolerance testing.
Abstract
The study is aimed at identifying the shared metabolites in early‐mid pregnancy associated with prepregnancy body mass index (pBMI) and subsequent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk and at exploring the mediating role of metabolites. One hundred pregnant women with GDM and 100 matched controls were enrolled in the study. Serum samples were collected in 10–20 weeks’ gestation and used for targeted metabolomic assay measurement. The associations among pBMI, metabolites, and GDM were investigated using linear regression and logistic regression models. Mediation analysis was conducted to evaluate the mediating effect of individual metabolite and clustered latent variable (LV) on the association of pBMI with GDM. We identified eight metabolites significantly associated with both pBMI and GDM, which contained three organic acids, three acylcarnitines, and two fatty acids. Mediation…
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TopicsGestational Diabetes Research and Management · Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies · Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies