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Glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes risk in relation to sleep duration and snoring during pregnancy: a pilot study

Chunfang Qiu et al. BMC Womens Health. 2010.

Abstract

Background: Insufficient sleep and poor sleep quality, considered endemic in modern society, are associated with obesity, impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes. Little, however, is known about the consequences of insufficient sleep and poor sleep quality during pregnancy on glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes.

Methods: A cohort of 1,290 women was interviewed during early pregnancy. We collected information about sleep duration and snoring during early pregnancy. Results from screening and diagnostic testing for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were abstracted from medical records. Generalized linear models were fitted to derive relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of GDM associated with sleep duration and snoring, respectively.

Results: After adjusting for maternal age and race/ethnicity, GDM risk was increased among women sleeping < or = 4 hours compared with those sleeping 9 hours per night (RR = 5.56; 95% CI 1.31-23.69). The corresponding RR for lean women (<25 kg/m2) was 3.23 (95% CI 0.34-30.41) and 9.83 (95% CI 1.12-86.32) for overweight women (> or = 25 kg/m2). Overall, snoring was associated with a 1.86-fold increased risk of GDM (RR = 1.86; 95% CI 0.88-3.94). The risk of GDM was particularly elevated among overweight women who snored. Compared with lean women who did not snore, those who were overweight and snored had a 6.9-fold increased risk of GDM (95% CI 2.87-16.6).

Conclusions: These preliminary findings suggest associations of short sleep duration and snoring with glucose intolerance and GDM. Though consistent with studies of men and non-pregnant women, larger studies that include objective measures of sleep duration, quality and apnea are needed to obtain more precise estimates of observed associations.

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Maternal mean plasma glucose concentrations after a 50-g glucose challenge. Means are adjusted for maternal age and race/ethnicity. Error bars are standard errors.

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Maternal mean 1-hour plasma glucose concentrations after a 50-g oral glucose challenge. (a). Proportion (%) of women with 1-hour glucose concentrations ≥ 140 mg/dl (b). Values are plotted for the entire cohort (black), lean (body mass index < 25 kg/m2, blue) and overweight (body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2, red) women, respectively.

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