Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
Women with gestational diabetes have less selenium in the body?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 6 observational studies with 147 women with gestational diabetes and 360 women without gestational diabetes.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that women with gestational diabetes had a lower serum selenium concentration than women without gestational diabetes [Hedges =-1.34, 95% CI =-2.33 to-0.36, p 0.01]. However, the difference was only signficant in the third trimester [Hedges =-2.81, 95% CI =-5.21 to-0.42, p 0.05].
The researchers found that pregnant women with impaired glucose tolerance had a lower serum selenium concentration than pregnant women with a normal blood sugar levels [Hedges =-0.85, 95% CI = 1.18-to-0.52].
The researchers concluded that pregnant women with elevated blood sugar less selenium, especially in the third trimester in the body than pregnant women with a normal blood sugar levels.
Original title:
The association between serum selenium and gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Askaria G, Irajb B, [...], Jafaria T.
Link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X14001758
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