ArticleThe Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology2020
Impact of maternal diabetes and obesity on fetal cardiac functions.
Article in The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Midtrimester Evaluation of Fetal Heart with Fetal Heart Quantification (FetalHQ) Related to Maternal Pathology.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Parental obesity predisposes male and female offspring to exacerbated cardiac dysfunction and increased mortality after myocardial infarction.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025Article
- Predictive Value of Maternal HbA1c Levels for Fetal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Pregestational Diabetic Pregnancies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Fetal cardiac function in pregnancy affected by congenital heart disease: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Cardiac changes in infants of diabetic mothers.World journal of diabetes · 2021Review
- Maternal Obesity: A Focus on Maternal Interventions to Improve Health of Offspring.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn several developing industrial countries, the incidence of obesity among populations is spreading quickly and dramatically; also, the frequency of maternal obesity is in continuous elevation, which represents a considerable public health problem. Maternal hyperglycemia is a common gestational risk factor for the fetus. Several studies proposed that maternal DM and obesity lead to intrauterine impacts which induce changes in the fetal myocardium, and the pre-pregnancy obesity and diabetes are accompanied with development of cardiovascular alterations in the offspring and subsequent pathological changes in their early life. The aim of this study is to assess the cardiac function in fetuses of obese pregnant women (FOW) and fetuses of diabetic women (FDW) in comparison with fetuses of normal pregnant women (FNW) using tissue Doppler imaging.
resultsThere was impairment in systolic and diastolic cardiac function in both fetuses of obese and diabetic women with decreased global longitudinal strain tissue Doppler velocities at 30 weeks of gestation compared to fetuses of normal women.
conclusionImaging of the fetus of pregnant women by Echo Doppler at about 30 weeks of gestations showed a reduced cardiac function of fetuses of obese and diabetic women matched with fetuses of normal BMI women. Our finding proposed that early subclinical alterations in the fetal cardiac output can arise from maternal obesity alone. This explains the predilection of children of obese mothers at advanced ages to cardiovascular disorder.
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