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

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Woman's Hospital Pathology Laboratory

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70815