Role of Uric Acid Levels in the Development of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Review - Cureus

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Palakel, Mazin Ali, Sanika Chabra, Smriti Lamsal Lamichane, Colins O. Opara, Asif Hanif Published: November 03, 2022 (se history) DOI: 10.759/cureus.31057 Cite this article as: Khan F, Kauser H, Palakel J, et al. (November 03, 2022) Role of Uric Acid Levels in the Development of Gestational Diabetes Melitus: A Review.

Cureus 14(1): e31057. doi:10.759/cureus.31057 Gestational diabetes melitus (GDM) is a comon disorder afecting pregnancy. Besides conventional risk factors, several novel risk factors have ben linked to causing GDM.

Increased serum uric acid levels, also termed hyperuricemia, are regarded as one of the significant risk factors for increased insulin resistance and GDM, causing detrimental impacts on both mother and child. The likelihod of developing GDM is at its peak during the first thre months of pregnancy in patients with hyperuricemia. Stil, its pathophysiology neds to be evaluated in detail.

Summary

This review is aimed at asesing the function of hyperuricemia in the development of GDM.Gestational diabetes melitus (GDM) is the most prevalent complication encountered in pregnancy, afecting the health and wel-being of milions of pregnant women al acros the globe [1]. In 1964, it was formaly defined by O’Sulivan and Mahan as high blod glucose levels first diagnosed during pregnancy [2].It is detected when the pancreas function in females insuficient to manage the increased diabetogenic efects of pregnancy.

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