Breastfeeding effect on glucose tolerance assessment in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled trial.

Aims: To test whether breastfeeding during the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) affects glucose and insulin outcomes (main outcome: 120 min plasma glucose).

Methods: A randomized crossover trial was conducted in 20 women with prior gestational diabetes mellitus. Each woman undertook two OGTTs in the first 3 months after delivery, breastfeeding the infant in one and avoiding breastfeeding in the other.

Antenatal oral glucose tolerance test in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: fasting plasma glucose is the best predictor of both large for-gestational-age newborns and postpartum glucose tolerance.

Background: Numerous studies have evaluated the predictors of large-for-gestational-age newborns (LGA) as well as abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT) after delivery in women with gestational diabetes mellitus, one at a time. The present study assesses the ability of glucose values on the antenatal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to predict both outcomes.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database.

Bowel habits and fecal incontinence in patients with obesity undergoing evaluation for weight loss: the importance of stool consistency.

Background: Fecal incontinence is highly prevalent in the general population and especially in risk groups. Obesity is also common and is associated with comorbidities that impair general health and interfere with daily activities. Identifying mutable factors for fecal incontinence, such as stool consistency, is of paramount importance to improve quality of life.

Differences in the Form of Presentation between Papillary Microcarcinomas and Papillary Carcinomas of Larger Size.

Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) with a diameter ≤1 cm are referred to as papillary microcarcinomas (PTMCs). The prognostic factors for PTMCs have not been defined. Different clinical and histopathologic variables were studied in 152 PTCs, including 74 PTMCs and 78 PTCs of larger size.