Ping Ling, Daizhi Yang, Chaofan Wang, Xueying Zheng, Sihui Luo, Xubin Yang, Hongrong Deng, Wen Xu, Jinhua Yan, Jianping Weng

A pregnancy‐specific Glucose management indicator derived from continuous glucose monitoring in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes

  • Endocrinology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Internal Medicine
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AbstractObjectiveGlucose management indicator (GMI) is a core metric derived from continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and is widely used to evaluate glucose control in patients with diabetes. No study has explored the pregnancy‐specific GMI. This study aimed to derive a best‐fitting model to calculate GMI from mean blood glucose (MBG) obtained from CGM among pregnant women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).MethodsA total of 272 CGM data and corresponding laboratory HbA1c from 98 pregnant women with T1DM in the CARNATION study were analysed in this study. Continuous glucose monitoring data were collected to calculate MBG, time‐in‐range (TIR), and glycaemic variability parameters. The relationships between the MBG and HbA1c during pregnancy and postpartum were explored. Mix‐effect regression analysis with polynomial terms and cross‐validation method was conducted to investigate the best‐fitting model to calculate GMI from MBG obtained by CGM.ResultsThe pregnant women had a mean age of 28.9 ± 3.8 years, with a diabetes duration of 8.8 ± 6.2 years and a mean body mass index (BMI) of 21.1 ± 2.5 kg/m2. The HbA1c levels were 6.1 ± 1.0% and 6.4 ± 1.0% during pregnancy and at postpartum (p = 0.024). The MBG levels were lower during pregnancy than those at postpartum (6.5 ± 1.1 mmol/L vs. 7.1 ± 1.5 mmol/L, p = 0.008). After adjusting the confounders of haemoglobin (Hb), BMI, trimesters, disease duration, mean amplitude of glycaemic excursions and CV%, we developed a pregnancy‐specific GMI‐MBG equation: GMI for pregnancy (%) = 0.84–0.28* [Trimester] + 0.08 * [ BMI in kg/m2 ] + 0.01 * [Hb in g/mL] + 0.50 * [MBG in mmol/L].ConclusionsWe derived a pregnancy‐specific GMI equation, which should be recommended for antenatal clinical care.Clinical trial registry numberChiCTR1900025955.

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