Gut microbiota aberrations precede diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus
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Abbreviations
- AUC
The area under curve
- GDM
Gestational diabetes
- hs-CRP
High sensitive CRP
- OR
Odds ratio
- OTUs
Operational taxonomic units
Notes
Acknowledgements
The study was funded by the Academy of Finland (#258606), State research funding for university-level health research of the Turku University Hospital Expert Responsibility Area, the Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation (personal funding for KM) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Varsinais-Suomi Regional Fund) (personal funding for KM).
Author’s contribution
KM and KL designed the study, TV performed the statistical analyses, KM and KL wrote the first draft of the article and finalized the article. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the results and the writing of the manuscript.
Compliance with ethical standards
Conflict of interests
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
Human and animal rights
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All procedures performed involving human subjects were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland (Permission No. 115/180/2012).
Informed consent
Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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