Neurodevelopmental outcome at 1 year in offspring of women with gestational diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To study the metabolic derangements in the second half of pregnancy caused by gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM), on the short term neurodevelopment of infants.

Design: A prospective cohort study of 555 mother-child pairs were recruited, which included 177 GDM patients and 378 pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance as controls. Clinical and demographic characteristics were obtained at enrollment, birth and follow-up.

Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity and the risk of preeclampsia: A meta-analysis of cohort studies.

Objective: The aim of our meta-analysis was to explore whether overweight and obesity was associated with preeclampsia or not.

Design: Three databases were systematically reviewed and reference lists of relevant articles were checked. Meta-analysis of published cohort studies comparing whether overweight and obesity was associated with preeclampsia and adjusting for potential confounding factors.

The Association between Advanced Maternal Age and Macrosomia: A Meta-Analysis.

Purpose: The aim of our meta-analysis was to explore whether advanced maternal age (AMA) is regarded as an important risk factor for predicting macrosomia or not.

Methods: Three databases were systematically reviewed and reference lists of relevant articles were checked. Meta-analysis of published cohort studies was done comparing whether AMA was associated with macrosomia and adjusting for potential confounding factors.

Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and the risk of macrosomia: a meta-analysis.

Purpose: The aim of our meta-analysis was to explore whether pre-pregnancy obesity is regarded as an important risk factor for predicting macrosomia or not.

Methods: Three databases were systematically reviewed and reference lists of relevant articles were checked. Meta-analysis of published cohort studies comparing whether pre-pregnancy obesity was associated with macrosomia and adjusting for potential confounding factors.

CTLA-4 polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): a meta-analysis.

The aim of this study was to summarize results on the association of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) promoter exon-1 +49 and 1722T/C polymorphism with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility by using the meta-analysis. We searched all the publications about the association between CTLA-4) promoter exon-1 +49 and 1722T/C polymorphism and SLE from PubMed, Elsevier Science Direct, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang (Chinese). Previous CTLA-4 association studies with SLE, however, have produced inconsistent results.