ReviewEuropean journal of nutrition2024
Ferritin and iron supplements in gestational diabetes mellitus: less or more?
Review in European journal of nutrition, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association of iron status during early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes: a retrospective cohort study in Shanghai.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Trace Elements in the Pancreas: From Physiological Homeostasis to the Pathogenesis of Diabetes, Pancreatitis, and Cancer-A Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Associations of maternal hemoglobin and its changes with gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study.Nutrition journal · 2026Article
- Association Between Longitudinal Serum Ferritin and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus - Beijing, Shanxi, and Shandong PLADs, China, 2021-2024.China CDC weekly · 2026Article
- Effects of 1-day outpatient nutrition intervention on insulin resistance and maternal-infant outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a single-center retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and ferroptosis in the placenta of gestational diabetes mellitus.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Review
- Article
- Genetic Causal Association Between 15 Micronutrients and 12 Obstetric-Related Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Biological trace element research · 2025Article
- Identification of Key Efferocytosis-Related Genes and Mechanisms in Diabetic Retinopathy.Molecular biotechnology · 2025Article
- Is Iron Supplementation Associated with Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa and Does Birth Weight Modify These Associations?Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association of early pregnancy body iron stores with the development of gestational diabetes mellitus: A hospital-based cohort study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Hematologic Complications of Pregnancy.European journal of haematology · 2025Review
- Associations between serum ferritin levels and gestational diabetes mellitus among a non-anemic population.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Serum ferritin levels and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Factors influencing dietary compliance among patients with gestational diabetes mellitus: a retrospective analysis.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- The associations of maternal serum ferritin levels with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a longitudinal cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of maternal thyroid function and gestational diabetes with pregnancy outcomes: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- The Role of Maternal Serum Ferritin in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Southeast Asia.Cureus · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Iron metabolism has been found to be closely related to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Excessive ferritin levels were shown to be related to an increased risk of GDM because of iron overload which may lead to insulin resistance and β-cell injury by enhancing oxidative stress and inflammatory responses. On the contrary, insufficient ferritin levels can cause a number of obstetric complications, such as high incidence rates of anaemia and gestational hypertension. Therefore, high or low ferritin levels may have adverse effects on the mother and the foetus, putting clinicians in a dilemma when giving pregnant women iron supplements. This also explains why there have been more conflicting findings in the studies on dietary or oral iron supplementation during pregnancy. Hence, there is an urgent need for more evidence and strategies for appropriate recommendations for ferritin levels and iron supplementation during pregnancy to prevent iron insufficiency without causing iron overload and increasing the risk of GDM. Therefore, we gave an updated review on the association of GDM with ferritin metabolism, ferritin levels and iron supplementation based on the summary of the latest research.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.