Prepregnancy Fitness and Risk of Gestational Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study aimed to assess the associations of prepregnancy cardiorespiratory fitness, moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA), and time spent watching television with subsequent development of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Methods

Participants were 1333 women enrolled in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study who did not have diabetes either at baseline (1985-86) or before births occurring after baseline. Baseline fitness was estimated using a graded symptom-limited maximal exercise treadmill test and expressed in MET units. Baseline MVPA (exercise units per day) was measured using the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults physical activity history questionnaire, and television viewing (h·d) was assessed by self

SUBMITTER: Whitaker KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6047908 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature