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. 2023 Feb 15;2023(2):CD011507. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011507.pub3

Ibrahim 2022.

Study name Effect of antenatal dietary myo‐inositol supplementation on the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus and fetal outcome
Methods Study type: prospective, randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled clinical trial 
Participants Inclusion criteria: 640 pregnant women attending antenatal care at Sidra Medicine
Interventions Intervention: myo‐inositol 
Control: placebo
Outcomes Primary outcome: gestational diabetes 
Secondary outcomes: gestational weight gain; need for metformin or insulin therapy; mode of delivery; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; large for gestational age at delivery; small for gestational age at delivery; macrosomia; shoulder dystocia and birth injury; polyhydramnios; neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admission for > 24 hours; neonatal hypoglycaemia requiring intravenous glucose; preterm delivery (< 37 weeks gestation); transient tachypnoea of the newborn; respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).
Starting date 15 October 2021
Contact information Ibrahim Ibrahim
Ibrahim2002@doctors.org.uk
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