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Influence of environmental temperature on risk of gestational diabetes

Overview of attention for article published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 2017
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Title
Influence of environmental temperature on risk of gestational diabetes
Published in
Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 2017
DOI 10.1503/cmaj.160839
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Authors

Gillian L. Booth, Jin Luo, Alison L. Park, Denice S. Feig, Rahim Moineddin, Joel G. Ray

Abstract

Cold-induced thermogenesis is known to improve insulin sensitivity, which may become increasingly relevant in the face of global warming. The aim of this study was to examine the relation between outdoor air temperature and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. We identified all births in the Greater Toronto Area from 2002 to 2014 using administrative health databases. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine the relation between the mean 30-day outdoor air temperature before the time of gestational diabetes mellitus screening and the likelihood of diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus based on a validated algorithm using hospital records and physician service claims. Over the 12-year period, there were 555 911 births among 396 828 women. Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus was 4.6% among women exposed to extremely cold mean outdoor air temperatures (≤ -10°C) in the 30-day period before screening and increased to 7.7% among those exposed to hot mean 30-day temperatures (≥ 24°C). Each 10°C increase in mean 30-day temperature was associated with a 1.06 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.04-1.07) times higher odds of gestational diabetes mellitus, after adjusting for maternal age, parity, neighbourhood income quintile, world region and year. A similar effect was seen for each 10°C rise in outdoor air temperature difference between 2 consecutive pregnancies for the same woman (adjusted odds ratio 1.06, 95% CI 1.03-1.08). In our setting, there was a direct relation between outdoor air temperature and the likelihood of gestational diabetes mellitus. Future climate patterns may substantially affect global variations in the prevalence of diabetes, which also has important implications for the prevention and treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus.

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Unknown 94 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 23%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 16 17%
Unknown 24 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Environmental Science 8 9%
Social Sciences 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 29 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 444. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 April 2019.
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#61,639
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Outputs from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#117
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#1,356
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Outputs of similar age from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#6
of 125 outputs
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