Obesity and overweight are public health problems in Mexico and represent a risk for the increase in various diseases such as diabetes, so researchers from the Aguascalientes Autonomous University (UAA) carry out a study of stress cases in women with diabetesGestational
The also Secretary of Research and Postgraduateof the World Health Organization (WHO).
In a statement, he said that diabetes diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy or gestational diabetes is also a health problem that must be addressed, since it is related to the excessive development of the body of the fetus and newborns (macrosomy), congenital malformations and ahigher caesarean section.
Terrones Saldívar explained that excess blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can condition adverse effects on embryo or fetus cells, which can alter its operation, a scenario that could be complicated with particular characteristics of oxidative stress, so the objective of the studyis to analyze the relationship between both processes.
For this research, the participation of two groups composed of 30 patients from the Women's Hospital will be attended;The first is a control group of pregnant women in normal evolution, while the second, also called a study group, will be formed by women with gestational diabetes.
With informed consent, a sample of blood will be taken to the latter, to measure metabolites, enzymes and other indicators to analyze the cell antioxidant system they present.
In this research project, in which the professor and researcher Alejandro Rosas Cabral also participates, the intellectual resources of different disciplines and instances are combined.
He said that an academic body of the Center for Basic Sciences, Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemist students Biologist (formerly Chemical-Biological Analysis) of the UAA, as well as researchers at the ISSEA.
This study is in the stage of collecting biological samples and research results are expected at the endobesity and overweight.