Seasonal Changes in the Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Objective: To determine the effect of different seasons on the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) by using World Health Organization criteria.

Research Design And Methods: The results of all pregnancy glucose tolerance tests (GTTs) were prospectively collected over a 3-year period in a temperate climate, and the results were grouped by season.

Results: The results of 7,369 pregnancy GTTs were available for consideration.

The prevalence of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Australia.

Background: The Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) has recently endorsed the World Health Organization (WHO) terminology and classification of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy. The prevalence is likely to increase, but no prospective data are available for a representative Australian population.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy (HIP) using results from both the public and private sectors in a population that has a similar ethnicity to the overall Australian population.

The impact of potential new diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia.

Objective: The International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) has proposed new criteria for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of GDM when IADPSG criteria were used with the prevalence when the current Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) criteria were used.

Design, Setting And Participants: This was a prospective study over a 6-month period, examining the results of all glucose tolerance tests (GTTs) conducted for the diagnosis of GDM in Wollongong, a city using the public and private sectors.

Prospective evaluation of procalcitonin in sepsis in the Illawarra area of Australia: PEPSIA study.

Introduction: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a precursor of the hormone calcitonin and has been proposed as a marker of infection in critically ill patients. We evaluated the role of procalcitonin in the early detection of sepsis in an Australian intensive care-high dependency unit (ICU/HDU).

Methods: This prospective observational study enrolled 204 consecutive patients admitted to the ICU/HDU of Wollongong Hospital, NSW, over a 3-month period, October to December 2001.

Contribution of adjuvant to adaptive immune responses in mice against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

The authors have previously demonstrated that adjuvant-mediated differences in early cellular responses to antigens significantly affect subsequent adaptive immune responses. To investigate further the contribution of adjuvant to adaptive immune responses, outer-membrane proteins (OMP) purified from the respiratory pathogen Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, given either alone (antigen group) or complexed with SAMA4 (vaccine group), were injected intradermally into groups of mice. Controls were given PBS.