Abstract
Aims
To explore the association between physical activity in early pregnancy and development of preeclampsia in women with preexisting diabetes.
Methods
In a prospective cohort study of 189 women with preexisting diabetes (110 type 1 and 79 type 2 diabetes), physical activity during pregnancy including sedentary behavior was evaluated with the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire. Primary outcome was preeclampsia. Secondary outcomes were preterm delivery, large and small for gestational age infants.
Results
Women developing preeclampsia (n = 23) had higher diastolic blood pressure in early pregnancy (mean 82 ± 9 SD vs. 77 ± 8, p = 0.004) and were more often nulliparous (91 vs. 52%, p < 0.001) compared with the remaining women (n = 166). Total physical activity in early pregnancy was similar between the groups (median 148 metabolic equivalent of task hours per week (MET-h/week) (interquartile range 118–227) versus 153 (121–205), p = 0.97). In early pregnancy, women developing preeclampsia reported a higher level of sedentary behavior (15 MET-h/week (7–18) versus 7 (4–15); p = 0.04); however, when adjusting for parity, diastolic blood pressure and smoking, the association attenuated (p = 0.13). Total physical activity and sedentary behavior in early pregnancy were not associated with preterm delivery, large or small for gestational age infants.
Conclusions
Among women with diabetes, sedentary behavior was reported higher in early pregnancy in women developing preeclampsia compared with the remaining women, while total physical activity was similar. Sedentary behavior was a predictor of preeclampsia in the univariate analysis, but not in the multiple regression analysis, and larger studies are needed to evaluate this possible modifiable risk factor.
Trial registration The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT02890836).
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The authors thank the staff at Center for Pregnant Women with Diabetes, Rigshospitalet, and Center for Diabetes and Pregnancy, Odense University Hospital, for help with recruitment and data collection. We kindly thank research-midwife Maria Anna Mikkelsen for help with collection and handling of data.
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NCD, BÁ and ERM were funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation. MV was funded by Rigshospitalets Research Foundation. The project was also funded by the Research Foundation between OUH and Rigshospitalet and the Exchange Foundation between OUH and Rigshospitalet. The funding sources had no influence on the study design, handling of data or writing of the manuscript.
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ERM, NCD and MV contributed to the idea. NCD, MV and BA collected the data. NCD analyzed the data and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors were involved in the interpretation of data, contributed to the discussion, reviewed and edited the manuscript and approved the final version. ERM is the guarantor of this work and, as such, has full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
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Do, N.C., Vestgaard, M., Ásbjörnsdóttir, B. et al. Physical activity, sedentary behavior and development of preeclampsia in women with preexisting diabetes. Acta Diabetol 57, 559–567 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-019-01459-7
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