Status:
COMPLETED
Insulin Action During Pregnancy in Woman at High Risk for Gestational Diabetes
Lead Sponsor:
Woman's
Collaborating Sponsors:
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Conditions:
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-42 years
Brief Summary
The project objective is to validate a new indirect estimate of insulin status in both pregnant African-American women and Caucasian women in southern Louisiana who are at risk for gestational diabete...
Detailed Description
The major goal of our proposed study is to validate a new approach to estimating insulin sensitivity and ß-cell function in African-American women compared to non-Hispanic white women in southern Loui...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 18-42 years of age
- at 20-30 weeks of gestation
- Caucasian or African-American and non-users of medications known to influence carbohydrate metabolism.
Exclusion
- \<18 years or \>42 years of age
- non-Caucasian or non-African-American ethnicity
- use of drugs that could interfere with glucose or insulin metabolism; or health problems such as diabetes mellitus or liver, heart, lung and kidney diseases
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2006
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
175 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00687479
Start Date
January 1 2006
End Date
December 1 2009
Last Update
December 18 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Woman's Hospital Pathology Laboratory
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70815