Bo S, Menato G, Lezo A, Signorile A, Bardelli C, De Michieli F, Massobrio M, Pagano G: Dietary fat and gestational hyperglycaemia. Diabetologia 44:972–978, 2001

Findings. Little is known about lifestyle factors that may be associated with gestational diabetes. Bo et al. sequentially interviewed 126 pregnant women with gestational diabetes, 84 with impaired glucose tolerance, and 294 with normal glucose tolerance to determine their usual weekly food pattern, amount of exercise, smoking habits, and alcohol intake. Patients with glucose abnormalities were older and shorter and had significantly higher BMI before pregnancy, higher percentage of diabetic first-degree relatives, and higher intake of saturated fat. In a multiple logistic regression model, age, short stature, familial diabetes, BMI, and percentage of saturated fat were associated with impaired glucose tolerance or gestational diabetes in all patients, after adjustment for gestational age. In patients without conventional risk factors, only percentage of saturated fat (OR = 2.0) and polyunsaturated fat (OR = …